Publisher's Synopsis
In this, the author's work reflected peasant traditions and customs that, as a consequence of the impact of the growing Industrial Revolution, were disappearing from a Spain until then fundamentally agrarian and rural. Likewise, he vindicated the worldview and the values associated with that patriarchal way of life that was beginning to endanger, in a candid and idealized way.
A complete collection of stories by Antonio de Trueba, published under this title during the author's lifetime, which includes the following titles:
- The priest of Paracuellos
- The way of giving alms
- The beating
- Donkey ears
- The doubts of San Pedro
- Uncle Interests
- The new priest
- Tinder
- Willpower
- Golden Peak
- A century in a minute
- The nightingale and the donkey
- Skylights
- The first sin
