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100	1		_aFiguerola Aldroféu, M. _q(Miquel), _d1861-1913
245	1	2	_aL'esca del pecat
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-05-22
508			_aEditor digital: Joan Queralt Gil
520			_a"L'esca del pecat" by M. Figuerola Aldroféu is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in Barcelona, it likely explores moral corruption, social hypocrisy, and the vulnerability of working people to predatory elites. It follows Gracieta, a virtuous young seamstress, and her widowed father Pau, targeted by the charming but violent dandy Arturo Bosch and his henchman, while a parallel thread involves the kept woman Antonia de Roca-viva and a jaded marquess. The opening of this novel introduces Pau, a good-natured cobbler, and his daughter Gracieta, courted by Arturo, who poses as a prosperous “stock man.” After Gracieta seeks her father’s approval, Arturo refuses a humble meeting and instead plots with his fixer, Mala-ánima, to lure Pau away and assault Gracieta in a rented flat; she resists, raises the alarm, and is forced to shield Arturo to save her father, who is being held and wounded. We then see Arturo’s double life: he lives grandly under an alias, keeps Antonia—whom he brutally violates—and partners in an insurance-fraud scheme using dynamite-laden crates disguised as goods bound for Montevideo. Meanwhile, a marquess and his club friends gossip, the marquess seduces and installs Antonia after she leaves Arturo, and Gracieta’s coworkers and neighbors piece together clues (with a portress’s help) to find Arturo, just as he finalizes the explosive scam and swears vengeance against Gracieta. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cBarcelona: Tipografia de la Biblioteca, 1890
653			_aCatalan fiction
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76140
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