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FORTUNATA AND JACINTA

FORTUNATA AND JACINTA

TWO STORIES OF MARRIED WOMEN

BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
1988
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-0-14-043305-0
Pages:
818
21,25 €
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Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s.

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