Marianela

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Marianela (1878) is a novel by Benito Prez Galds. Published toward the beginning of Prez Galds career, Marianela is a powerful story of romance and disability that raises timeless questions regarding the meaning of love and the values associated with beauty. Adapted several times for film and television in Spain and abroad, the novel is Prez Galds most universal works of fiction. Everyone is familiar with the phrase love at first sight, but what about love at first song In Marianela, Benito Prez Galds explores the ways we understand love in relation to worldly beauty. His contemporary fable is set in the fictional town of Socartes, where a young orphan named Marianela captures the heart of the blind youth Pablo through her beautiful singing. Their love is pure, and they plan to marry, but Pablos father has other plans. Hiring the famous doctor Teodoro Golfn to restore his sons eyesight, he unwittingly threatens the unique relationship between Pablo and Marianela, whose physical features are far from societys ideal. Although he promises to love her forever, Pablo feels pressured to marry his cousin Florentina. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Benito Prez Galdss Marianela is a classic of Spanish literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Benito Prez Galds (1843-1920) was a Spanish novelist. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he was the youngest of ten sons born to Lieutenant Colonel Don Sebastin Prez and Doa Dolores Galds. Educated at San Agustin school, he travelled to Madrid to study Law but failed to complete his studies. In 1865, Prez Galds began publishing articles on politics and the arts in La Nacin. His literary career began in earnest with his 1868 Spanish translation of Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers. Inspired by the leading realist writers of his time, especially Balzac, Prez Galds published his first novel, La Fontana de Oro (1870). Over the next several decades, he would write dozens of literary works, totaling 31 fictional novels, 46 historical novels known as the National Episodes, 23 plays, and 20 volumes of shorter fiction and journalism. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times without winning, Prez Galds is considered the preeminent author of nineteenth century Spain and the nations second greatest novelist after Miguel de Cervantes. Doa Perfecta (1876), one of his finest works, has been adapted for film and television several times.