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La farisea

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Paseaban por el campo que une al continente de la Isla la ciudad de Puerto Rico, el brigadier D. Agustín Campos, coronel de un regimiento recientemente llegado de la madre patria, y un joven teniente, su ayudante. El entusiasta carino que este joven demostraba a su anciano jefe, había sido y era el tema de burlas y censuras poco benévolas entre sus companeros; los que no pudiendo comprender que un joven de brillantes prendas, formado para agradar y sobresalir en cualquier reunión, prefiriese a todas ellas la sociedad de un austero anciano, atribuían esta preferencia, el uno a baja adulación, el otro a orgulloso desdén, otros en fin a extravagancia; en vista de que no hay intolerancia más acerba que la de la medianía hacia la superioridad.

85 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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Fernán Caballero

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Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea, under the pen name Fernán Caballero, wrote about the folklore of rural Andalusia.

Her father was Johann Nikolaus Böhl und Lütkens (Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber), a German businessman, married with Spanish Frasquita Larrea, who converted to Roman Catholicism and instaled on 1813 in Andalusia, his wife's native land.

In 1816 Cecilia married Antonio Planells, an infantry officer who was killed in action just a year later. In 1822 she married the Marqués de Arco Hermoso. He died in 1835, leaving Cecilia widowed for a second time. In 1837 she married a much younger man, Antonio de Ayala, who committed suicide in 1859.

Cecilia had to publish her writings to help her desperate situation and improve her income. Her first and best-known novel, "La gaviota" was a great success. It is considered one of the first examples of the literary spanish movement "costumbrismo".

She was a very popular writer in Spain for many years. Her death was considered a great loss to the Spanish community.

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December 5, 2013
Se puede vivir con poco...Este precioso relato, aunque corto, posee un lenguaje exquisito, propio de la época, y señala además, las mismas cosas de la vida. Cuando el egoísmo paraliza al corazón, la conciencia está inerte.
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