Benito Perez Galdos

A Dickensian tale of ambition, family, and financial ruin by the most important Spanish novelist after Cervantes, this tragicomic novel about a patriarch struggling to keep his ungrateful family from ruin is at turns scathing and hilarious.

Benito Perez Galdos' inverted drama about a conflicted heroine attempting to escape provincial boredom--only to come crawling back home--absolutely emanates the singular vision of the author who inspired surrealist filmmakers and is considered by many Spain's greatest writer after Cervantes. Perez Galdos' depiction of the no-man's-land that was late 19th-century Spain will appeal to historical fiction fans as well as strictly literary readers.