The Three-Cornered Hat: The True History of an Affair Current in certain Tales and Ballads, and Here Written Down as how it Befel

Alarcon, Don Pedro Antonio de

Published by Simon & Schuster, Publishers, New York, 1928

About this Item

Large 8vo. xiv (ii), 129 (1) pp, illus. and with Four Tipped-in Color Prints. Now Translated out of the Spanish by Martin Armstrong: 1928. Inked name on front paste down. Light external wear with age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.75". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "One of the best-loved Spanish novels of all time, A hilarious tale of lust, intrigue and corrupt authorities set in eighteenth-century Andalusia. When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the formidable - and formidably desirable - Senora Frasquita, the wife of a local miller, the couple set about foiling his plans for a seduction. There ensues a fast-paced comedy of moonlight flits, clothes swapping, mistaken identity, and slapstick accidents as the characters struggle in vain to maintain both dignity and marital harmony. Calm is eventually restored in a scene of unmasking and mutual forgiveness of truly operatic proportions." Size: Large Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Three-Cornered Hat: The True History of an Affair Current in certain Tales and Ballads, and Here Written Down as how it Befel
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Norman Tealby
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book
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