In a small Spanish town where nothing is talked of more than a coming marriage, family pride, social rank and the ambitions of an old aristocratic house collide with the plain affections of the townspeople. The numberless relations of a retired Pensioner and his four daughters, the town’s endless gossip and the claims of birth all feed a novel of manners issued in Edmund Gosse’s International Library.
Warm, observant Spanish realism from a novelist widely translated and admired in his lifetime. Download the free EPUB.