Emilia Pardo Bazan, Paul O'Prey

Broschiertes Buch

The House of Ulloa

Beschreibung

Follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new home, Julian's well-meaning but ineffectual attempts to prevent the fall of the House of Ulloa end in tragedy.

Autor

The countess Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in 1851 and married at the age of sixteen. But rather than following the usual path of an upper-class woman of the time, she became interested in politics and philosophy, separated from her husband, travelled widely, had an affair with the writer Benito Pérez Galdós and started writing herself. She died in 1921.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 306485
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780141392950
• ISBN-10: 0141392959
• Artikelnr.: 37743209

Rezensionen

An absolutely first-rate novelist [...] Bazán's genius lies in the way she mixes comedy, farce, realism and heightened-pitch hysteria with a dash of gothic [...] People may travel by donkey in this book, but it could have been written yesterday Nick Lezard Guardian