Doña Perfecta: read in Spanish (B2)
Read Galdós’s novel Doña Perfecta in Spanish. Level B2: quarrels in dialogue, ironic portraits of a provincial town, with instant word translation.
Doña Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós)
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Dialogue and arguments, vocabulary of religion, society and conflict, ironic description, nineteenth-century Spanish prose
This article contains the full text of Benito Pérez Galdós’s novel Doña Perfecta (1876) about the engineer Pepe Rey, who arrives in the devout town of Orbajosa to marry his cousin and clashes with his aunt and the local notables. Level B2 suits readers who can follow dialogue and longer descriptive sentences in Spanish. You will learn the vocabulary of provincial society, religion and conflict, and meet nineteenth-century word order.
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