- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Dedalus Ltd; 2nd edition (2 Feb 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1873982852
- ISBN-13: 978-1873982853
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 143,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Crushed by poverty or the weight of their pretensions, the high and low life of 19th century Madrid provides the cast for this enjoyably bleak portrait of a family's decline, fall and recovery. The widow Dona Francisca, reduced from salon to slum, is protected by her servant Benita, who begs and barters in a daily battle with starvation and her mistress's pride. When a sudden inheritance enriches the old crow, Benita is cast aside. Galdos's Spain teems with saints and sinners, corrupted as much by poverty as by wealth'The Sunday Times
'Crushed by poverty or the weight of their pretensions, the high and low life of 19th century Madrid provides the cast for this enjoyably bleak portrait of a family's decline, fall and recovery. The widow Dona Francisca, reduced from salon to slum, is protected by her servant Benita, who begs and barters in a daily battle with starvation and her mistress's pride. When a sudden inheritance enriches the old crow, Benita is cast aside. Galdos's Spain teems with saints and sinners, corrupted as much by poverty as by wealth'The Sunday Times
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4.0 out of 5 stars
classic spanish novel,
By jd (uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Misericordia O/P (Dedalus European Classics) (Paperback)
Written in 1897 this is the best novel I could find in print, in english translation, by one of Spain's most important 19th century writers. It gives a detailed, authentic, contemporaneous account of the worst extremes of poverty in late 19th century Madrid, with an entertaining and moving story about a good hearted maid who secretly begs to keep her mistress and her family from starving.
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