by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423972289
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the short novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published with «El capitán Veneno» in paperback (231 pages, Espasa Calpe).
In the eponymous novel, set in 19th-century Andalusia, a corregidor tries to seduce a miller's wife, triggering a comic tangle. In «El capitán Veneno», a surly, misogynistic military man, wounded in a duel, is cared for by a young woman who manages to soften his character.
Part of the Austral Collection (no. 228) and the 21st edition, edited by Jesús Rubio Jiménez with bibliography.
For readers interested in Spanish classics and students of 19th-century literature.
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).
