Excellent reading in either Spanish or English the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability & literary merit Seven are from Spanish America only one from Spain an unsurprising ratio considering there are no less than nineteen Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas & that the short story is an extremely popular form among authors there This selection also therefore gives the reader an insight into the differences between the literary cultures Printed Approx. in order of difficulty the stories are accompanied by parallel English translations & notes on the text