Jos Mar a de Pereda (February 6, 1833, Polanco, Cantabria - March 1, 1906, Polanco) was one of the most distinguished of modern Spanish novelists, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He was educated at the Institute C ntabro of Santander, whence he went in 1852 to Madrid, where he studied with the vague purpose of entering the artillery corps. Abandoning this design after three years' trial, he returned home and began his literary career by...