by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Libertarias Prodhufi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479544294
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«Cuentos y novelas cortas» is the anthology of short stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Libertarias Prodhufi in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Anthology bringing together short narratives by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, a 19th-century Spanish author situated between Romanticism and Realism. It includes notable titles such as «La comendadora», «El amigo de la muerte» and «El sombrero de tres picos», as well as stories like «El carbonero-alcalde». The edition, prepared by Ángel Basanta Folgueira, collects short stories and novellas that show the writer's narrative evolution, with works that were praised even by critics of opposing ideas to the author's and that retain their popularity and literary quality.
Volume 7 of the Clásicos de Libertarias collection; edition by Ángel Basanta Folgueira. Includes «El carbonero-alcalde», «La comendadora», «El amigo de la muerte» and «El sombrero de tres picos».
Aimed at readers interested in classic Spanish literature and 19th-century short fiction.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
