by Benito Pérez Galdós · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422617440
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«Memorias de un cortesano de 1815» is the historical novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (222 pages, in Spanish).
In this installment of the Episodios Nacionales, Galdós follows Juan Bragas de Pipaón, an unscrupulous courtier who climbs his way into the inner circle of Ferdinand VII. The novel portrays with irony and a picaresque tone the intrigues, favoritism and corruption of the absolutist Spanish court of 1815.
Second novel of the second series of the Episodios Nacionales (number 12 of the whole), originally published in 1875.
For readers of historical fiction and admirers of nineteenth-century Spanish literature, especially those who want to learn about the Spain of Ferdinand VII.
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
