Name: La Fontana de Oro
Author: Benito Perez Galdos
ISBN: 978-0270633863

La Fontana de Oro

By Benito Pérez Galdós 23 Nov, 2019

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In the novel, written between 1867 and 1868, partly during a trip to France shortly after the September Revolution , real historical facts are mixed with the personal affairs of the characters created by Galdós, following a similar literary construction pattern to that of the National Episodes , although with the defects of any first-time work.of American students in High Schools and the elementary years of College. First, one of its beauties is itself a drawback for this particular purpose; namely, the rather vague and abstract moral it conveys. Then, the main-spring of the plot, like that of Electra, lies in a dubious obscurity to which it is not necessary to direct the attention of young people. Mariucha, on the other hand, presents clean-cut, open problems of daily life, and they are also problems which any American can readily understand, not local Spanish anachronisms. I chose Mariucha believing it to be the best fitted for general class use among all the dramas of Galdós; and I hope that Spanish teachers may not find me wrong. The Introduction is confined to a discussion of Galdós as a dramatic author, since a study of his entire work or of his influence on his generation would be quite out of place. To my friend and colleague Professor Erasmo Buceta I am deeply grateful for generous and suggestive help; and I am indebted to Doña María Pérez-Galdós de Verde for information which gives the Bibliography an accuracy it could not otherwise have had. S.G Less

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