by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479692223
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the short novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Compañía Europea de Comunicación e Información in paperback, in Spanish.
Set in early 19th-century Andalusia, it tells how the corregidor, smitten with the beauty of Frasquita, wife of the miller Tío Lucas, devises a plan to win her over. Misunderstandings and confusion ensue until the shrewd miller turns the tables, in a story full of irony and costumbrista social critique.
1991 edition in the Biblioteca de El Sol collection, 225 pages; the work was originally published in 1874.
Recommended for readers of Spanish literary classics and humorous costumbrista 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).
