Los caballeros del pez / The Knights of the Fish

Name: Los caballeros del pez / The Knights of the Fish
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SKU: ES13-5 Category: Spanisch-Englisch

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Buchformat: 12,5 x 19,0 cm

“Los caballeros del pez” (“The Knights of the Fish”) is a fairy tale by Fernán Caballero.
Fernán Caballero was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea. For many years she was the most popular of Spanish writers.
Unabridged original text. Bilingual book Spanish-English.

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Érase vez y vez (once upon a time there was: "there was once a time and time"; ser — to be) un pobre zapatero remendón (a poor cobbler; zapatom — shoe; remendar — to repair; mend), que no ganaba nada en su oficio (who earned nothing by his craft; ganar — to earn; oficiom — profession; trade; occupation), y así determinó comprar una red (and therefore decided to buy a net) y meterse a pescador (and become a fisherman; pezm — fish; pescar — to fish).

Muchos días estuvo pescando (he was fishing for many days; estar — /temporarily/ to be; stay), y no sacó más que cangrejos (and didn’t catch anything but crabs/crayfish; sacar — to retrieve; remove) y zapatos viejos (and old shoes), que cuando era remendón (which when he was a cobbler) no veía nunca (/he/ had never seen; ver). Al fin pensó (finally /he/ thought):

—Hoy es el último día que pesco (today is the last day that I /will/ fish). Si nada saco (if I catch nothing), me voy y me ahorco (I /will/ go and hang myself; irse — to depart; go away; ahorcar).