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La Regenta

Clarín

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1884
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 720

In a stifling provincial cathedral town, a judge's much younger wife is pulled between her possessive confessor and a vain seducer, and when she finally gives in to desire, the men in her life destroy her for it and each other.

The heroic city was taking its siesta.
La Regenta, Clarín

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