Five short Spanish stories in translation: Emilia Pardo Bazán’s tale of a boy’s first love for a portrait found in his aunt’s chest, an Andalusian duel, the sacrifice of Mariquita the Bald, the love of Clotilde, and Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s comedy of the woman-hating Captain Veneno and his proposal of marriage.
A compact taste of nineteenth-century Spanish fiction, from the famous Little Blue Book series. Download the free EPUB.