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Publication Date
11-2025
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Spanish writer, intellectual, and feminist Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) was a master of the short form and practitioner of the style that became known as naturalism. This collection gathers twenty-seven of her stories in English translation, revealing the narrative complexity, keen psychological insight, and careful attention to realistic detail that was characteristic of her work. The highly symbolic titular story, “The White Horse,” qualified Pardo Bazán as the godmother of the Generation of ’98, the group of writers who exhorted Spain to rid itself of inertia and fixation on past glories. Influenced by the work of Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola, Pardo Bazán’s themes are fear, love, hatred, forgiveness, cruelty, repentance, homesickness, and madness—that is, naked reality as experienced across social strata in her time.
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The Pardon, A Galician Mother, The Lady Bandit, The Guilty Woman, The Faithful Fiancée, A Descendant of the Cid, Don Carmelo’s Salvation, The White Horse, The Cuff Link, The White Hair, The Torn Lace, The Substitute, Scissors, The Nurse, Rescue, Generation of ’98, suspense, thrillers, mysteries, symbolic, symbolism, fear, love, hatred, forgiveness, cruelty, poverty, necrophilia, repentance, homesickness, madness, Gustav Wertheimer, Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, Gardens of Méndez Núñez, Meirás, Spain, La Coruña, Emilia Pardo Bazán Museum, Spanish short stories, Spanish writers, Spanish literature, nineteenth-century Spanish writers, nineteenth-century women writers, nineteenth-century literature, women writers, women authors, Spain, fiction, short fiction, short stories, short story collections, tales, narratives, translations, literature in translation, naturalism, nature, intellectual, feminist fiction, feminism, realism, Alphonse Daudet, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, El indulto, Nieto del Cid, El premio gordo, En tranvía, No lo invento, La última ilusión, La culpable, La novia fiel, La sed de Cristo, Voz de la sangre, La vision de los Reyes Magos, Madre gallega, Los huevos pasados, El encaje roto, La lógica, Sustitución, Desde allá, Consuelo, El caballo blanco, Las tijeras, La capitana, La enfermera, El gemelo, Salvamento, El vidrio roto, La cana, La salvación de don Carmelo
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English translation copyright © 1993 by Robert M. Fedorchek Copyright © 2025 Bucknell University Press [paperback] All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Bucknell University Press, Hildreth-Mirza Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law.
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eng, spa
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9781684485796