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 of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period.

Jo Labanyi's study

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