Los cien mil hijos de San Luis

Por Benito Perez Galdos

Los cien mil hijos de San Luis (1877) es la sexta novela de la segunda serie de los episodios nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Está contada en su mayor parte en primera persona por Genara de Barahona, y describe su viaje a Francia comisionada para apoyar la invasión de los franceses (llamados los cien mil hijos de San Luis) a España para restaurar el absolutismo, al mismo tiempo que se desarrolla su relación con Salvador Monsalud.

Es el año 1823. Genara de Barahona se ha separado de su marido y goza del favor de los absolutistas para viajar a los lugares donde se está tramando el golpe de estado con mensajes y propuestas. Está enamorada de Salvador Monsalud y viaja con él.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Benito Pérez Galdós
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 21 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892577107

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.