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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure, best known for Pepita Jiménez which depicts a young seminarian's gradual of the empty vanity of his vocation, culminating in a shattering denouement. Armando Palacio Valdés (1853-1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic. His Marta y Maria portrays of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera.

El bermejino prehistorico o las salamandras azules es un relato de Juan Valera que transcurre a lo largo del Mediterraneo. Desde Espana hasta Jerusalen los personajes se encuentran y desencuentran afrontando las mas disimiles peripecias.

En la Andalucia del siglo XIX, la joven Pepita Jimenez -obligada por su tia Salvaora a casarse con el usurero Gumersindo- enviuda durante su banquete de bodas. Tras el funeral de su marido, Pepita es pretendida por un conde y por el hacendado Pedro, padre del seminarista Luis. Sin embargo, la joven se siente atraida por Luis, quien vuelve a su pueblo natal para pasar una vacaciones antes de ordenarse sacerdote y contiene su deseo por respeto a su padre. La novela ms famosa de Juan Valera es Pepita Jimnez (1874), fue publicada por entregas en la Revista de Espaa, traducida a diez lenguas en su poca y vendi ms de 100.000 ejemplares.

A novel that depicts the deleterious effects of the Romantic malaise that swept through western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century.

A novel with a female protagonist, this work unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior. They must contend with the indignation of his imperious married daughter, the public rebuke of a churchman, and the strictures of society.