by Benito Pérez Galdós · Hernando,S. A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471552273
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«Cánovas» is the historical novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, published by Hernando, S. A. in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The work is part of the Episodios Nacionales, the great narrative cycle with which Galdós reviews nineteenth-century Spain. In this installment, the writer evokes Restoration Spain through the figure of Cánovas del Castillo, the politician who forged and sustained that period, and describes with irony Madrid and its inhabitants during the early years of Alfonso XII's reign.
It belongs to the fifth series of the Episodios Nacionales, of which it is the sixth installment. The novel was originally published in 1912; this edition is from 1973.
For readers of historical fiction who want to approach Restoration Spain and the narrative of Benito Pérez Galdós.
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Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
