Publisher's Synopsis
Reprinted from the 1898 edition of a collection of five stories by celebrated 19th century Spanish authors in English translation. The collection includes two stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, The Tall Woman, and Moors and Christians; The White Butterfly by Jose Selgas; The Organist by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer; and Bread Cast Upon the Waters by Fernan Caballero. De Alarcon (1833-91) is best known for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a lively picture of village life in his native region of Andalusia. Jose Selgas (1822-82), a poet, novelist, and journalist born in Lorca, Murcia, is best known for his verse and short stories and was elected a member of the Spanish Academy. Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-70) was a Romanticist poet and writer (mostly of short stories), also a playwright and literary columnist, who is regarded as one of the leading figures in Spanish literature. Fernan Caballero was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the female novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Bohl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea (1796-1877) who first came to fame with the publication of her novel La Gaviota (1849).
