![]() ![]() She is described as having spotty skin, thin hair, a malproportioned face, and most notably an underdeveloped body for her age. This book is about Marianela, called La Nela, an orphaned, “deformed” adolescent who lives in the mining country in Cantabria. ![]() Apart from his few dozen-and often lengthy-social-realist novels, he wrote five series of historical novels, forty-six novels in all, covering the 19th century in Spain. For like the golden age playwright, Galdós was extremely prolific. In many ways he is reminiscent of Lope de Vega: both a critical and popular success, whose celebrity did not get in the way of his output. This is a shame, since Galdós was a writer of rare gifts, a fountain of stories written in beautiful prose. In Spain his reputation as a novelist is second only to Cervantes and yet the English translation of this book, one of his most famous, is out of print. Running the (Full) M… on The Madrid Half-MarathonĢ023: New Year… on From Gold to Glory: A Slice of…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Three…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: …Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez…īenito Peréz Galdós is yet another of those Spanish authors whose wide fame in their own language is equalled by their wide obscurity elsewhere. ![]()
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