by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Agustin Sanchez Aguilar · Editorial Vicens Vives · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788431663810
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«El sombrero de tres picos» is the short novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón and Agustín Sánchez Aguilar, published by Vicens Vives in paperback (208 pages).
Set in a provincial town at the beginning of the 19th century, the work narrates an old corregidor's attempt to seduce a married miller's wife who is faithful to her husband. The corregidor devises a trick to be alone with her during the night, but the plan goes awry and triggers a succession of misunderstandings among several characters. Alarcón wraps his critique of certain moral failings in a comic and ironic tale.
Work originally published in 1874. No. 36 in the Aula de Literatura collection; 2012 edition with introduction, explanatory notes and activities.
School edition intended for secondary school students, with didactic material to accompany the reading.
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).
