Spanish literature in English
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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 Pepe's progressive and Europeanizing position
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“Tomorrow in the battle think on me” by Javier Marías “Published throughout Europe to widespread acclaim, TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK OF ME is a masterfully crafted mystery, a subtle and complex novel of a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta invites Victor, whom she had met only a few days before, to dinner
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“A heart so white” by Javier Marías “This celebrated European best-seller opens with an unexplained suicide in Madrid forty years before the narrator is born, when the aunt he´ll never meet leaves the lunch table and shoots herself in the chest. The next chapter jumps to his honeymoon from him, as he overhears lovers plotting murder, perhaps,