bookshelves: published-1884, spain, group-read, winter-20142015, tbr-busting-2015, classic, lit-richer, under-500-ratings, epic-proportions, paper-read, families, women, madrid, roman-catholic, period-piece, victorian, historical-fiction, cousin-love Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Wanda Read from No...
Reconozco que este episodio se me ha hecho más pesado que los anteriores, tal vez porque tiene muchísima carga de datos históricos (al fin y al cabo, es lo que son estas novelas) y porque tampoco soy demasiado fan de las narraciones de batallas. El estilo de Galdós desde luego ayuda a avanzar y a qu...
According to a woman named Ana, this is a great introduction to Galdos; one of his best, and much shorter than Fortuna Y Jacinta.
Galdos is the Spanish Dickens, and this seems like a decent choice. (Open to other suggestions, but not Fortuna y Jacinta; I ain't got time to read War & Peace again, man.)
Vivid picture of Madrid society. Terrifying how they all have to extract the maximum advantage from everyone they know. I would hate to have to live like that. Great book.
This novel of a woman struggling to free herself from her confining domestic status consists mainly of the protagonist's introspections. Galdos examines the theme of liberty and seems to conclude, perhaps with some disillusionment at the results of the Revolution of 1868, that the individual is resp...
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