Fortunata and Jacinta by Agnes Gullon - ISBN: 9780140433050
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Love, betrayal, and class collide in 1870s Madrid’s tangled lives.

Fortunata and Jacinta

Two Stories of Married Women

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  • Paperback

    848 pages

  • Release Date

    5 September 1988

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Summary

Galdós’s four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140433050
ISBN-10:0140433058
Author:Agnes Gullon, Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:848
Release Date:5 September 1988
Weight:610g
Dimensions:197mm x 135mm x 50mm
Series:Classics S.
About The Author

Agnes Gullon

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) Novelist and playwright, born in Las Palmas, Canary Is, Spain. Regarded as Spain’s greatest novelist after Cervantes, his 46 short Episodios nacionales (National Episodes) give a vivid picture of 19th-c Spain from the viewpoint of the people. Some of his longer novels have been translated, including Dona Perfecta (1876, trans 1886). His plays, many of them based on his novels, have also been successful.

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