Doña Perfecta
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Doña Perfecta

Piety and Provincial Spain Against a Young Engineer

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Doña Perfecta

Piety and Provincial Spain Against a Young Engineer

About this book

A young engineer from Madrid comes to a small cathedral town to marry his cousin and finds the whole place — his aunt, the priest, the streets — quietly organized against him, because he has read the wrong books. Galdós wrote some eighty novels and is held the greatest Spaniard since Cervantes; this short, cold one is where he stopped being polite about clerical Spain. Fifty-eight plates, from El Greco to Sorolla, trace the austere Castilian light and clerical shadow that hang over Galdós's small, cold town.

Information

Publisher
Aeneas Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9785486579400
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Introduction
  4. I
  5. II
  6. III
  7. IV
  8. Chapter I. Villahorrenda! Five Minutes!
  9. Chapter II. A Journey in the Heart of Spain
  10. Chapter III. Pepe Rey
  11. Chapter IV. The Arrival of the Cousin
  12. Chapter V. Will There Be Dissension?
  13. Chapter VI. In Which It Is Seen That Disagreement May Arise When Least Expected
  14. Chapter VII. The Disagreement Increases
  15. Chapter VIII. In All Haste
  16. Chapter IX. The Disagreement Continues to Increase, and Thereafter to Become Discord
  17. Chapter X. The Evidence of Discord Is Evident
  18. Chapter XI. The Discord Grows
  19. Chapter XII. Here Was Troy
  20. Chapter XIII. A Casus Belli
  21. Chapter XIV. The Discord Continues to Increase
  22. Chapter XV. Discord Continues to Grow Until War Is Declared
  23. Chapter XVI. Night
  24. Chapter XVII. Light in the Darkness
  25. Chapter XVIII. The Soldiers
  26. Chapter XIX. A Terrible Battle-Strategy
  27. Chapter XX. Rumors—Fears
  28. Chapter XXI. “Desperta Ferro”
  29. Chapter XXII. “Desperta!”
  30. Chapter XXIII. Mystery
  31. Chapter XXIV. The Confession
  32. Chapter XXV. Unforeseen Events—A Passing Disagreement
  33. Chapter XXVI. Maria Remedios
  34. Chapter XXVII. A Canon’s Torture
  35. Chapter XXVIII. From Pepe Rey to Don Juan Rey
  36. Chapter XXIX. From Pepe Rey to Rosarito Polentinos
  37. Chapter XXX. Beating Up the Game
  38. Chapter XXXI. Doña Perfecta
  39. Chapter XXXII. Conclusion
  40. About the Author

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