by Arturo Pérez-Reverte · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420403243
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«Hombres buenos» is the historical novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by Alfaguara in hardback (592 pages, in Spanish).
At the end of the eighteenth century, two academics of the Royal Spanish Academy, the librarian Hermógenes Molina and Admiral Pedro Zárate, travel from Madrid to Paris to clandestinely obtain the twenty-eight volumes of the Encyclopédie by D'Alembert and Diderot, a work banned in Spain. The commission confronts them with intrigues, unsafe roads and the Paris of cafés and philosophical gatherings on the eve of the French Revolution.
The book belongs to the Hispánica collection of Alfaguara. It was published in 2015.
Spanish journalist, former war reporter and novelist, author of the Captain Alatriste saga and novels such as The Flanders Panel and The Club Dumas.
