His Only Son: With Dona Berta by Leopoldo Alas (English) Paperback Book

Description: His Only Son by Leopoldo Alas, Margaret Jull Costa Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Dona Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor but well-born woman forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life. Publisher Description The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation-and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity-who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacios wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son-but is it Bonifacios? In the accompanying novella, Dona Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor, but well-born woman, forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life.While largely unknown outside of Spain, Leopoldo Alas was one of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain and employed his satirical talents to powerful and humorous effect in fiction. His Only Son was Alass second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful characters-irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fates-are yet multidimensional individuals, often conscious of their own weaknesses and stymied by their very yearnings to be more than the parts they find themselves playing. Author Biography Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901) was the son of a government official, born in Zamora, Spain. He attended the University of Oviedo and the University of Madrid, receiving a doctorate in law. A novelist and writer of short stories who adopted the pseudonym Clarin (Bugle), Alas was one of Spains most influential literary critics. He became a professor of law at the University of Oviedo in 1883 and published his first and best-known novel, La Regenta, in 1884; his second novel, Su onico hijo (His Only Son), was published in 1890. He died in Oviedo at the age of forty-nine.Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as E a de Queir z, Jose Saramago, Javier Marias, and Fernando Pessoa, as well as poets such as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luisa Amaral. She has won various prizes, most recently the 2015 Marsh Award for Childrens Fiction in Translation for Bernardo Atxagas The Adventures of Shola. In 2013 she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2014 was awarded an Order of the British Empire for services to literature. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds. Details ISBN 1681370182 ISBN-13 9781681370187 Title His Only Son Author Leopoldo Alas, Margaret Jull Costa Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 344 Edition Main Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc GE_Item_ID:141762640; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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