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“Doña Perfecta” by Benito Pérez Galdós & translation and introduction by Harriet de Onís
“Published in 1876, DOÑA PERFECTA is not only the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) that aroused the most heated controversy, but also a highly representative work of his first creative stage. The conflict between the progressive and Europeanizing position of Pepe Rey - a young engineer who arrives in the episcopal city of Orbajosa with the intention of marrying Rosarito, his cousin and daughter of Doña Perfecta, a mainstay of Orbajon society - and the immobile attitude of a society attached to traditional beliefs and forms of existence constitutes the nucleus around which it is articulated.”
Taken from House of the book.
See also:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C3%B1a_Perfecta
http://gep.group.shef.ac.uk/trans.htm
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Doña Perfecta / Galdós ; translation and introduction by Harriet de Onis. — Great Neck (New York): Barron's Educational Series, cop. 1960.
235 pages ; 19cm
PQ 6555 .D6613 1960
