La corte de Carlos IV

Por Benito Perez Galdos

La corte de Carlos IV es la segunda novela de la primera serie de los Episodios nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Continúa con la historia del joven gaditano Gabriel de Araceli.

Después de participar en la batalla de Trafalgar, Gabriel se desplaza a Madrid, donde trabaja como aprendiz en una imprenta, y como criado de la actriz Pepita González. Se enamora de la joven Inés, una pobre costurera de 14 años que vive con su madre viuda. Gabriel sueña con hacer fortuna y casarse con Inés, quien, sin embargo, prefiere la vida honrada y humilde que lleva, y se burla de los sueños de su joven novio.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Benito Pérez Galdós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 20 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892575349

Benito Perez Galdos

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a Spanish novelist. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he was the youngest of ten sons born to Lieutenant Colonel Don Sebastián Pérez and Doña Dolores Galdós. Educated at San Agustin school, he travelled to Madrid to study Law but failed to complete his studies. In 1865, Pérez Galdós began publishing articles on politics and the arts in La Nación. His literary career began in earnest with his 1868 Spanish translation of Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Inspired by the leading realist writers of his time, especially Balzac, Pérez Galdós published his first novel, La Fontana de Oro (1870). Over the next several decades, he would write dozens of literary works, totaling 31 fictional novels, 46 historical novels known as the National Episodes, 23 plays, and 20 volumes of shorter fiction and journalism. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times without winning, Pérez Galdós is considered the preeminent author of nineteenth century Spain and the nation’s second greatest novelist after Miguel de Cervantes. Doña Perfecta (1876), one of his finest works, has been adapted for film and television several times.