Psychological thriller set in Berlin
Fortunata and Jacinta
Location(s): Madrid
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 1870s
Galdos’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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