🏛️ Classic
The Regent's Wife
📖 Synopsis
Ana Ozores drowns in boredom between an old husband, an ambitious priest and a Don Juan in a provincial town. The great 19th-century Spanish novel.
✍️ ChatZona's review
The great novel of late Spanish realism, and one of the few that holds its own alongside Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina. Ana Ozores is not the first woman trapped between duty and desire, but Clarín builds her with a psychological and social complexity few authors of his era achieved. Vetusta — the fictional city modelled on Oviedo — is a character in its own right. Long, yes, but every page counts. A reading that changes one's perception of nineteenth-century Spain.
