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by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Alianza · tapa blanda · 304 pages
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Esta antología de cuentos de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, seleccionada y presentada por Arturo Ramoneda, reúne algunos de los relatos más destacados del autor, considerados hitos de la literatura española. Incluye cuentos como 'El clavo', que se considera un antecedente del género policiaco en España, 'La mujer alta' y 'La Comendadora'. El volumen ofrece una semblanza del autor y contextualiza los cuentos dentro de su vida y obra, proporcionando una experiencia de lectura amena y enriquecedora.

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).