Howells had loved Spanish literature since boyhood, and in his seventies he at last travelled through the country. He records San Sebastián and Biscay, bitterly cold Burgos, Valladolid, Madrid, Toledo and the Escorial, then Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Ronda, Algeciras and Tarifa, candid about his disappointments as well as his delights.
Graceful, humorous travel writing by the dean of American letters. Download the free EPUB.