Marianela

Marianela is a luminous portrait of love and loss set against the stark landscape of 1800s Spain. It stings with quiet grief. In this nineteenth-century novel Benito Perez Galdos combines close psychological observation with broad social critique, exploring social class themes and the everyday realities of poverty and society. The narrative's tender attention to inner life and its unsparing view of hardship mark it as classic Spanish literature and as a realist novel from Spain; readers who...