| | Fortunata and Jacinta - Benito Pérez Galdós |
 | | Fortunata's circumstances are much poorer than the circles the Santa Cruzes move in, and she and the boy she is said to have had with Juanito allow Galdos to describe a completely different part of Madrid, populated by a rich cast of characters. |
| | The ill-fated marriage crashes apart, but Maximiliano remains obsessed by his wife, and Galdos allows the character some remarkable transformations, as one remains unsure to the very end of how deranged (or how sensible) he is, and what he might do. |
| | Particularly noteworthy also is Galdos' style: witty but surprisingly subtle in its presentation -- as is made clear by the easily forgotten fact that the novel is actually recounted by a first-person narrator. |
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