Publisher's Synopsis
The great narrative frieze of the National Episodes served as a vehicle for Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) to recreate in it, romantically set, the totality of the complex life of the Spaniards - wars, politics, daily life, popular reactions - to what throughout the hectic 19th century.TRAFALGAR, it functions as a narrative preamble to the collection, since in the following episode, The Court of Carlos IV, is when the author begins to introduce himself in the preliminaries of the war between the Spanish and the French. The fundamental and recurring motifs in the first series, which already appear in this episode, are the homeland, heroism and the people. It tells the story of the young man from Cádiz Gabriel de Araceli, who at the age of 14 is involved in the battle of Trafalgar as a servant of an old officer of the Navy in the reserve.This novel, the first of the first series of the National Episodes, was published by Benito Pérez Galdós in 1873.
