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Fortunata and Jacinta

Benito Pérez Galdós

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1887
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 820

In Restoration Madrid, a rich young man marries his proper, childless cousin but keeps circling back to the fiery lover he abandoned, and the son she bears him ends up raised in his wife's nursery.

What are you eating, my dear? Can't you see? she replied, showing it to him. An egg. A raw egg!
Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdós

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