Benito Perez Galdos
Miaow Paperback Book
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A Dickensian tale of ambition, family, and financial ruin by the most important Spanish novelist after Cervantes, this tragicomic novel about a patriarch struggling to keep his ungrateful family from ruin is at turns scathing and hilarious.Ramn Villaamil has been a loyal civil servant his whole life, but a change in government leaves him out of a job and still two months short of qualifying for his pension. Initially optimistic that hell be able to find work and pull his family out of their financial straits, he spends his days visiting the Administration, pestering his excolleagues to put in a good word for him, and begging his friends in high places for money. At home, Villaamils wife, daughter, and sisterinlawwhose feline appearances earn them the nickname the Miaowsare unimpressed by Villaamils failures, and the only joy left in Villaamils life is his young grandson Luis. When Luiss disgraced father, the handsome and dastardly Vctor Cadalso reappears in their lives with promises of easing their financial burdens, Villaamil has no choice but to allow him back into their midst, even as he knows there is nothing pure about Vctors intentions, and that his return could bring them all to ruin.Comparable to the best of Balzac and Dickens, Benito Prez Galdss satire of lower middleclass life offers a scathing critique of the hypocrisy and corruption within nineteenthcentury Spanish society as well as a potent exploration of the value of human life outside of work. Margaret...
Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: New York Review of Books - IWUK; Classification: FA; Weight: 424 g; Dimensions: 202 x 128 x 19
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A Dickensian tale of ambition, family, and financial ruin by the most important Spanish novelist after Cervantes, this tragicomic novel about a patriarch struggling to keep his ungrateful family from ruin is at turns scathing and hilarious.Ramn Villaamil has been a loyal civil servant his whole life, but a change in government leaves him out of a job and still two months short of qualifying for his pension. Initially optimistic that hell be able to find work and pull his family out of their financial straits, he spends his days visiting the Administration, pestering his excolleagues to put in a good word for him, and begging his friends in high places for money. At home, Villaamils wife, daughter, and sisterinlawwhose feline appearances earn them the nickname the Miaowsare unimpressed by Villaamils failures, and the only joy left in Villaamils life is his young grandson Luis. When Luiss disgraced father, the handsome and dastardly Vctor Cadalso reappears in their lives with promises of easing their financial burdens, Villaamil has no choice but to allow him back into their midst, even as he knows there is nothing pure about Vctors intentions, and that his return could bring them all to ruin.Comparable to the best of Balzac and Dickens, Benito Prez Galdss satire of lower middleclass life offers a scathing critique of the hypocrisy and corruption within nineteenthcentury Spanish society as well as a potent exploration of the value of human life outside of work. Margaret...
Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: New York Review of Books - IWUK; Classification: FA; Weight: 424 g; Dimensions: 202 x 128 x 19
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Benito Perez Galdos
Miaow Paperback Book
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