by Pío Baroja · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420610078
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«Cuentos» is Pío Baroja's collection of short stories, published by Alianza in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
«Cuentos» brings together Pío Baroja's early short stories set in Basque and Madrid environments, featuring marginalised characters and a critical view of social injustice. It includes almost all the stories from «Vidas sombrías», along with later ones such as «Elizabide el Vagabundo» and «La dama de Urtubi», with a prologue by Julio Caro Baroja.
It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Literature section, volume 7; this is the 8th edition.
Recommended for readers aged 12 and over, interested in Pío Baroja's short fiction and in Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen who was a goldsmith, was a well-known anthropologist.
