Madrid in the 1880s: the financier Salabert, Duke de Requena, his daughter Clementina, the Baroness de Rag, wits, parasites and fashionable lovers dine, gamble and intrigue in a society built on borrowed money and appearances. Palacio Valdés exposes the froth floating on the surface of Spanish life, and the misery that its luxury rests upon.
A sharp social novel from one of Spain’s most popular realists, introduced by Edmund Gosse. Download the free EPUB.