This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...

"Esta edición reproduce el texto crítico y las notas de Francisco Rico, a su vez coordinador del volumen, y se completa con estudios de escritores y filólogos de la talla de Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Ayala, Martín de Riquer, José Manuel Blecua, Guillermo Rojo, José Antonio Pascual, Margit Frenk y Claudio Guillén. Como novedad, la presente edición cuenta con un prólogo de Darío Villanueva, director de la Real Academia Española, escrito...

Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.

"Arthur Shelton, Earl of Macklin, has helped four young noblemen recover from grief and find love, but he's learned to live his own life as a widower. Yet when he returns home after traveling, his estate feels too empty, and he quickly heads to London. There, he encounters Teresa Alvarez de Granada, a charming Spanish noblewoman and is immediately entranced. There is no room for earls in the quiet, safe life Teresa has finally found for herself. The...

The theme of the story is the character of Juan Santa Cruz, the only son of a wealthy bourgeois family in late nineteenth century Madrid. In his student days, the young man leads a dissipated life in which he meets and becomes infatuated with Fortunata, a beautiful girl of humble origins. Juan seduces Fortunata and becomes her lover but ends up getting bored of it and disappears from her life. His mother decides to marry him to his niece Jacinta....

Galdoz's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s.

The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in seventeenth-century Spain.