Trafalgar & Saragossa (Musaicum History Series)

Trafalgar & Saragossa (Musaicum History Series)
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Trafalgar" is the historical novel of the Battle of Trafalgar. The action is narrated in the first person by Gabriel de Araceli, a heroic character, mixing his romantic and often folkloric biography. Gabriel is presented as a rogue orphan from Cádiz, who at the age of 14 gets involved in the battle of Trafalgar as a servant of an old Navy officer in the reserve. The action takes place in October 1805 and narrates with a certain epic rhythm, the preparations, development and outcome of the battle, with the boy enlisted in the Santísima Trinidad, flagship of the Spanish Navy. "Saragossa" – Through the first-person narration of Gabriel de Araceli, the novel describes the second siege of Zaragoza, which occurred in January and February 1809, during the War of Independence between Spain and France. The story depicts one of his most stark pictures of the violence of the war, with meticulous descriptions of the preparations for the defense of the city, under General Palafox, the war skirmishes, the lack of food, the technical and material superiority of the French and the yellow fever epidemic that decimated the population of a Zaragoza.

Torquemada

Torquemada
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1986
Genre: Spanish literature
ISBN:

That Bringas Woman

That Bringas Woman
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Everymans Library
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1996
Genre: Spain
ISBN: 9780460876360

Written by Benito Perez Galdos, one of Spain's best kept literary secrets and arguably the greatest Spanish author since Cervantes, THAT BRINGAS WOMAN(1884)is part of Galdos's panoramic series of novels about Madrid social life and is alsoindirectly, a novel about the revolotion in Spain.Focusing upon the Bringas household in a manner reminiscent of, and probably influenced by, Zola, it offers a shrewd and none too flattering analysis of feminine psychology and an intimateportrait of marriage.However, unlike Flaubert, Tolstoy and Alas, the other great novelists of adultery of his day, Galdos's view of the subject and its, consequences is both hard headed and humorous rather th

Saragossa

Saragossa
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9783337560294