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Misericordia: read in Spanish (B2)

Read Galdós’s novel Misericordia in Spanish. Level B2: the street life of Madrid, dialogue and long descriptive sentences, with instant word translation.

Misericordia (Benito Pérez Galdós)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Everyday dialogue, street and church vocabulary, the language of poverty and pretence, long descriptive sentences, late 19th-century Spanish prose

This article contains the full text of Benito Pérez Galdós’s novel Misericordia (1897) about Benina, a maid who feeds a ruined household with lies and alms collected at the door of a Madrid church. Level B2 suits readers who can follow dialogue and long descriptive sentences in Spanish. You will learn everyday and street vocabulary and the voice of nineteenth-century narrative prose.

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