by Benito Pérez Galdós · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422617365
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«Bailén» is the historical novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (268 pages, in Spanish).
Gabriel de Araceli, recovered from the wounds suffered in the uprising of 2 May in Madrid, arrives in Andalusia and takes part in the Battle of Bailén, where the improvised armies of Castaños and the Andalusian garrochistas defeat and force the French troops to capitulate during the Peninsular War.
Bailén is the fourth novel of the first series of the Episodios Nacionales by Benito Pérez Galdós, originally published in 1873.
For readers of historical fiction and of the classics of nineteenth-century Spanish literature.
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
