02796cam a22003613u 4500 76572 UtSlPG 20260610134755.0 m cr n 260607r20251906utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 10022870 UtSlPG es iso639-1 PQ Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920 Luchana Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Episodios nacionales. Tercera serie Wikipedia page about this book: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchana_(episodio_nacional) Release date is 2025-07-27 Ramón Pajares Box. (This book was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/University of Toronto - Robarts Library.) "Luchana" by Benito Pérez Galdós is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. Part of the Episodios Nacionales, it dramatizes the political convulsions of Spain in the 1830s—especially the La Granja uprising and the liberal push to restore the 1812 Constitution—interwoven with the personal story of the young protagonist Fernando Calpena and those around him. Expect a blend of eyewitness chronicle, irony, and romantic undercurrents. The opening of the novel unfolds through a sharp, ironic letter from a “señora incógnita” who witnesses the tense hours at La Granja: soldiers murmur, the Himno de Riego rings out, and sargentos press the Regent, María Cristina, to proclaim the Constitution of 1812. Inside a drab archive room, two sargents—timid yet firm—debate the Regent and her courtiers; a naive soldier’s answers add comic pathos, and a minister’s legal quibble about the regency article briefly stalls things before the Regent yields and signs the decree. The scene shifts to Laguardia, where Fernando Calpena—recovering from a wound—reads these letters to a cautious local tertulia, then navigates household life with the pious Navarridas family. A subplot emerges: Demetria’s guardians arrange a grand match with the impeccably virtuous don Rodrigo de Urdaneta Idiáquez, while Fernando, skeptical of such perfection and intent on pursuing his beloved Aura, prepares to depart. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Madrid: Perlado, Páez y Compañía, 1906 Spain -- History -- Carlist War, 1833-1840 -- Fiction Episodios nacionales. Tercera serie https://archive.org/details/luchana00prez https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76572 117297 117297