Juan Valera

Pepita Jiménez, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Edi

A novel with a female protagonist, this work unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a

A novel that depicts the deleterious effects of the Romantic malaise that swept through western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Doña Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. What she cannot leave behind is her histor

I see I am soaring too high, so I shall descend and speak more plainly. So writes nineteenth-century Spanish author Juan Valera in “Cordovan Woman,” o