by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · Ediciones Gaviota · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439216360
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«Cuentos» is a book of short stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, published by Ediciones Gaviota in paperback (300 pages, in Spanish).
A selection of short stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón notable for their spontaneity, charm and imagination. The author combines narration, dialogue, descriptions and characterisation with plot as the central axis; the collection helped consolidate the Spanish literary short story.
The book, illustrated by José María Clement, is part of the Trébol de oro / Cuentos escogidos collection and was published in 2005.
A book recommended for young readers aged 14 and over and for anyone wishing to approach short fiction in Spanish.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).
