Bøger af Juan Valera

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure, best known for Pepita Jiménez which depicts a young seminarian's gradual of the empty vanity of his vocation, culminating in a shattering denouement. Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic. His Marta y Maria portrays of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera.

A novel that depicts the deleterious effects of the Romantic malaise that swept through western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century.

A novel with a female protagonist, this work unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior. They must contend with the indignation of his imperious married daughter, the public rebuke of a churchman, and the strictures of society.