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Tristana / Benito Pérez Galdós ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa ; introduction by Jeremy Treglown.

by Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920.

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New York Review Books, 2014.

New York Review Books classics.

9781590177655 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

1590177657 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

Tristana. English English.

xi, 171 p. ; 21 cm.

Translated from the Spanish.

Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly assuming responsibility for the friend's orphaned daughter, lovely Tristana. Don Lope takes her into his house and before long he takes her to bed. It's an arrangement that Tristana accepts more or less unquestioningly - that is, until she meets the handsome young painter Horacio. Then she actively rebels, sets out to educate herself, reveals tremendous talents, and soon surpasses her lover in her open defiance of convention. One thing is for sure: Tristana will be her own woman. And when it counts, Don Lope will be there for her.

Historical fiction.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

Treglown, Jeremy.

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