Benito Perez Galdos

Benito Perez Galdos has been described as the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes. His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens and Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period.

Jo Labanyi's Study

Jo Labanyi's study is supported by a wide-ranging introduction, a section of contemporary comment, headnotes to each piece, and helpful appendix material.