{"product_id":"2940015708806","title":"POOR FOLK IN SPAIN","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      CHAP.                                           PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I. LONDON                                        3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II. JESUS PEREZ                                   7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III. THE FRONTIER                                 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV. MEDINA DEL CAMPO                             29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V. AVILA                                        40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI. MADRID                                       51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII. A HOT NIGHT                                  60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. MURCIA--FIRST IMPRESSIONS                    70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX. MURCIA--SETTLING DOWN                        81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X. MURCIA--BLAS                                 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI. MURCIA--THE ALPAGATA SHOP                    95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XII. MURCIA--BRAVO TORO                           98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIII. AN EXCURSION                                109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIV. VERDOLAY--HOUSEKEEPING                      123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XV. VERDOLAY--SKETCHING IN SPAIN                133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XVI. VERDOLAY--CONENI                            142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVII. VERDOLAY--THE INHABITANTS                   147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVIII. VERDOLAY--THE DANCE AT CONENI'S             156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIX. MURCIA--THE LAUD                            161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XX. ALICANTE                                    169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XXI. JIJONA--THE FIESTA                          185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXII. JIJONA--TIA ROGER                           200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIII. JIJONA--A DAY'S WORK                        207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXIV. JIJONA--THE GOATHERDS                       218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XXV. MURCIA--AUTUMN IN THE PASEO DE CORVERAS     226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXVI. LORCA                                       244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXVII. MURCIA--LAST DAYS                           260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXVIII. THE ROAD HOME                               268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF PLATES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                            _To face page_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    SPANISH COURTYARD                       _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CARTERS IN THE POSADA                               70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A MURCIAN BEGGAR WOMAN                              78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    GIRL SINGING A MALAGUEÑA                           220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    THE VALENCIAN JOTA DANCED BY THREE COUPLES         222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOOR FOLK IN SPAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONDON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe had tasted of Spain before ever we had crossed her frontiers. Indeed,\u003cbr\u003eperhaps Spain is the easiest country to obtain samples from without the\u003cbr\u003efatigue of travelling. The Spaniard carries his atmosphere with him:\u003cbr\u003ewherever he goes he re-creates in his immediate surroundings more than a\u003cbr\u003ehint of his national existence. The Englishman abroad may be\u003cbr\u003eEnglish--more brutally and uncompromisingly English than the Spaniard is\u003cbr\u003eSpanish--yet he does not carry England with him. He does not, that is,\u003cbr\u003ere-create England to the extent of making her seem quite real abroad;\u003cbr\u003ethere she appears alien, remote, somewhat out of place. So, too, neither\u003cbr\u003ethe Russian, the German, the Dane, the Portuguese, the Italian, nor the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican can carry with him the flavour of his homeland in an essence\u003cbr\u003esufficiently concentrated to withstand the insidious infiltration of a\u003cbr\u003eforeign atmosphere. To some extent the Scandinavian countries, Norway\u003cbr\u003eand Sweden, have this power; but Spain is thus gifted in the greatest\u003cbr\u003emeasure. These three countries seem to possess a national\u003cbr\u003eunconsciousness which fends them off from too close a contact with lands\u003cbr\u003ewhich are foreign to them; perhaps one might almost accuse them of a\u003cbr\u003elack of sensitiveness in certain aspects....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, be the reason what it may, we had gathered some experience of\u003cbr\u003eSpain in Paris before, and in London during the war. What we had tasted\u003cbr\u003ewe had liked, and so when in our low-ceilinged attic refuge in London we\u003cbr\u003egazed out upon a sky covered with flat cloud, as though with a dirty\u003cbr\u003eblanket, and wondered how we might escape in order to seek for our\u003cbr\u003eoriginal selves--if they were not irretrievably lost--we thought of\u003cbr\u003eSpain. I think that we went to Spain to look for something that the war\u003cbr\u003ehad taken from us. It was as though the low ceiling of our room, and the\u003cbr\u003elow-lying sky, shut us in with something which was not altogether true;\u003cbr\u003eindeed, we feel that many years must pass before the dissipation of this\u003cbr\u003ecurious sensation of unreality which the war had stamped on to every\u003cbr\u003eone, except the most callous.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147780243696,"sku":"2940015708806","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015708806","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}