by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · PML Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441000438
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the short costumbrista novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by PML Ediciones in paperback (127 pages, in Spanish).
Short novel set in rural 19th-century Andalusia: the town corregidor tries to woo doña Frasquita, the miller's beautiful wife, and his plans unleash a series of comic entanglements and misunderstandings. A representative work of Spanish costumbrismo, it portrays with irony the customs and human types of the era.
The novel was originally published in 1874; this edition is from 1997 and belongs to the Clásicos Españoles collection.
For readers interested in the classics of Spanish literature and Andalusian costumbrismo, it is also a common reading in school settings.
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).
