by Benito Pérez Galdós · The Edwin Mellen Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780779950904
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«Gerona» is the historical novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, seventh title in the first series of the Episodios Nacionales, in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
The novel focuses on the siege suffered by the city of Gerona during the Spanish War of Independence, when Napoleonic troops tried to take it. Through various characters, Galdós portrays life under the siege, the hunger, the diseases and the resistance of the population, with a realistic gaze and a strong human component.
It belongs to the first series of the Episodios Nacionales, where it occupies number 7. It was originally published in 1874.
For readers of historical fiction and for those who want to approach the Spanish War of Independence through a classic of 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.
