by Juan Valera · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420602752
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«Pepita Jiménez» is the novel by Juan Valera published by Alianza Editorial in 1987 in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Don Luis de Vargas, a young seminarian preparing for ordination, returns to his village and discovers that his father intends to marry Pepita Jiménez, a young and beautiful widow. Their interaction awakens a passion that conflicts with his religious vocation and the social conventions of the era.
This edition from the El Libro de Bolsillo collection (no. 1275) includes an introduction and notes by Demetrio Estébanez Calderón. The work was originally published in 1874.
Aimed at readers of nineteenth-century Spanish novels and classics of Spanish-language literature.
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, diplomat, and politician.
