Maximo Manso, the narrator, gradually realizes that the characters in his story no longer have any use for him.

Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Perez Galdos's novel "Tristana." The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context.

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Galdoz's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s.

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Benito Perez Galdos, considered Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, wrote 77 novels, several works of theater and a number of other tomes during his lifetime (1843-1920). His works have been translated into all major languages of the world, and many of his most highly regarded novels, those of the contemporary period, have been translated into English two, three and even four times over. Of the few contemporary novels of Galdos that until now have not come to light in English, The Forbidden is certainly among the most noteworthy. The story line concerns a wealthy philanderer,...

Se le considera uno de los mejores representantes de la novela realista del siglo XIX en Espana y un narrador capital en la historia de la literatura en lengua espanola, hasta el punto de ser reconocido por muchos como el mayor novelista espanol despues de Cervantes. Galdos transformo el panorama novelesco espanol de la epoca, apartandose de la corriente romanticista en pos del realismo y aportando a la narrativa una gran expresividad."