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During the brutal Spanish colonization of the New World, the voice of the Aztec officer known as Xolotl, oft called Prodigal Monster, throws new light on the last days of the conquest of Mexico. He is about to open an enigmatic little can-of-worms.

While ostensibly implying that a bit of treachery-perhaps mutiny-took place in the palace before the retreat of June 30, Xolotl disputes Hernando Cortes's claims that the Emperor was hit in the head with a stone while trying to calm a rebellious crowd in the streets below. And for once, Cortes, the silver-tongued confidence man from...

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman relates the writer and his work to the nineteenth century novel as a genre and traces his artistic growth during a twenty-year period, from his initial historical fable, La Fontana de Oro, to his masterpiece, Fortunata y Jacinta.

Originally published in 1981.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...

During the brutal Spanish colonization of the New World, the voice of the Aztec officer known as Xolotl, oft called Prodigal Monster, throws new light on the last days of the conquest of Mexico. He is about to open an enigmatic little can-of-worms.

While ostensibly implying that a bit of treachery-perhaps mutiny-took place in the palace before the retreat of June 30, Xolotl disputes Hernando Cortes's claims that the Emperor was hit in the head with a stone while trying to calm a rebellious crowd in the streets below. And for once, Cortes, the silver-tongued confidence man from...

Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent...