Author: Peter Bly
Publisher: Foyles
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 340

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Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 314

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Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789120039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Although Spain is a country which has always had a great attraction for English-speaking people, Spanish novelists are very little known to them. Yet Pérez Galdós is not only the most popular of writers in Spain, whose books are a household word among his countrymen, but he is a major European novelist who ranks with Balzac Dostoevsky and Dickens. In THE SPENDTHRIFTS (LA DE BRINGAS) the scene is laid in the Royal Palace at Madrid, where Bringas and his wife hold minor posts at the court of Queen Isabella. Rosalía Bringas is a woman whose passion for dress leads her steadily deeper into debt and who is obliged to resort to more and more ludicrous and precarious devices to conceal her extravagance from a model bureaucrat of a husband. Her friend the Marquesa de Tellería is in a similar plight, while Doña Cándida, a superb parasite and bore, has already reached the end of the same downward path. The rottenness of the whole regime becomes apparent and when, at the close of a sweltering summer, the Army, the Navy and the entire country rise with one accord and the Queen flees to France, the curtain falls on this phantasmagoric society, so brilliant when viewed from the outside but built on poverty and debt and emptiness. Thus THE SPENDTHRIFTS is both an allegory of the ending classes of Spain and a sermon on the classic Spanish theme, made familiar to us in DON QUIXOTE, of illusions and reality.

Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Author: Benito Perez Galdos
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546370451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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De la amplia producci�n novelesca de Benito P�rez Gald�s (1843-1920), la cr�tica ha destacado en numerosas ocasiones La de Bringas (1884) como su mejor libro. La historia, centrada en Madrid, empieza siendo el retrato de una mujer �que ten�a esa vanidad que pretende cubrir con perifollos de seda la falta de ropa blanca y que prefiere el adorno de la sala al cuidado de la alcoba�, para concluir como una novela sobre la ambici�n y el poder en una sociedad basada en el fraude y el enga�o.

Author: Jo Labanyi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317896505
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period. Jo Labanyi's study is supported by a wide-rangting introduction, a section of contemporary comment, headnotes to each piece and helpful appendix material.

Author: William H. Shoemaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293783290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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