Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C3%B1a_Perfecta Release date is 2005-04-28
Produced by Stan Goodman, Miranda van de Heijning, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Produced by Stan Goodman, Miranda van de Heijning, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
"Doña Perfecta" by Benito Pérez Galdós is a realist novel published in 1876. When liberal-minded Pepe Rey arrives in the provincial cathedral city of Orbajosa to marry his cousin Rosario in an arranged match, he expects a simple union. Instead, he faces fierce opposition from his aunt Doña Perfecta and the meddling cathedral canon Don Inocencio. Their conflict exposes a bitter clash between modern liberal values and traditional provincial power, revealing the church's overwhelming influence in nineteenth-century Spain. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Married women -- Fiction Spanish language -- Readers Spain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Religion and politics -- Spain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction Liberalism -- Spain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction Social conflict -- Spain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction