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Read Galdós’s novel Trafalgar in Spanish. Level C1: a boy’s account of Cádiz and a ship of the line in 1805, with long sentences and sailing vocabulary, plus instant word translation.
Naval and sailing vocabulary, long periodic sentences, first-person memoir narration, 19th-century historical prose
This article contains the full text of Benito Pérez Galdós’s novel Trafalgar (1873), the first of the Episodios nacionales, narrated by Gabriel Araceli, a boy from Cádiz who goes aboard the Santísima Trinidad before the great sea battle of 1805. Level C1 suits readers who can handle long 19th-century sentences in Spanish. You will learn naval and historical vocabulary and the style of a first-person memoir.