The House of Ulloa: Emilia Pardo Bazan (Pocket Penguins) - Softcover
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion this gloriously comic and gothic novel follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence sexual intrigue and corruption A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocketsized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguins original covers
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An absolutely first-rate novelist [...] Bazán's genius lies in the way she mixes comedy, farce, realism and heightened-pitch hysteria with a dash of gothic [...] People may travel by donkey in this book, but it could have been written yesterday (Nick Lezard Guardian)
Pardo Bazán's mastery of social types and of the political currents that swirled around the liberal revolution are unsurpassed in Spanish literature ... O'Prey and Graves ... avoid awkward literalisms while nonetheless remaining true to the spirit of the original (New Criterion)
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Pardo Bazán's mastery of social types and of the political currents that swirled around the liberal revolution are unsurpassed in Spanish literature ... O'Prey and Graves ... avoid awkward literalisms while nonetheless remaining true to the spirit of the original (New Criterion)
The countess Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in 1851 and married at the age of sixteen. But rather than following the usual path of an upper-class woman of the time, she became interested in politics and philosophy, separated from her husband, travelled widely, had an affair with the writer Benito Pérez Galdós and started writing herself. The House of Ulloa (1886) is generally considered to be her masterpiece. She died in 1921.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0241259169
- ISBN 13 9780241259160
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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