by Benito Pérez Galdós · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420650104
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«La batalla de los Arapiles» is the historical novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (266 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the Battle of Arapiles, fought in 1812 near Salamanca: the allied troops of Spaniards, British and Portuguese, under the command of the Duke of Wellington, defeated the Napoleonic army. Galdós interweaves the military episode with the adventures of Gabriel de Araceli, which conclude in this tenth instalment of the Episodios Nacionales.
Tenth instalment of the first series of the Episodios Nacionales. The work, originally published in 1875, appeared in the El Libro de Bolsillo collection of Alianza Editorial.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those who wish to complete the first series of Galdós's Episodios Nacionales.
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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.
