by Juan Valera · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423918447
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Pepita Jiménez» is the novel by Spanish writer Juan Valera, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (223 pages, in Spanish).
Young seminarian Luis de Vargas returns to his Andalusian village before taking holy orders and feels drawn to Pepita Jiménez, a widow from the village. Between religious vocation and this incipient love, the novel explores the clash between faith, desire and social conventions in rural nineteenth-century Andalusia.
Originally published in 1874, this edition belongs to the Austral Collection (no. 44), with an introduction by Andrés Amorós.
For readers of Spanish classics and nineteenth-century fiction, interested in stories of love and inner conflict.
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, diplomat, and politician.
