The Three-cornered Hat

by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Book Overview

This classic novel tells the story of a young widow who is courted by a local magistrate. Set in a small Spanish village, the novel explores themes of love, jealousy, and the complexities of rural life. With its vivid descriptions of the Spanish countryside and its colorful cast of characters, The Three-Cornered Hat is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1019944056
• ISBN13: 9781019944059
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Legare Street Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A wild night in Andalusia

This book is like a comedy of errors told as a short novel. It is about a very happy couple, a miller and his beautiful wife, who live in a pretty mill-house in Andalusia, Southern Spain, in the early 1800's. Everybody in town has a crush with the miller's wife, including the town's principal political figure, a disgusting, lascivious old man. When this man tries to seduce the woman, all hell breaks loose in a crazy tale of mistaken identities, nocturnal escapades, horseriding and farce. It is a very easy to read book and it will give you a couple of hours of good-written entertainment, just like if you had gone to the movies, only here you get to decide the faces, places and color of everything.

Amor, celos, suspenso, humor

Como tenia que leer esta novelita para una clase de literatura española del siglo XIX, yo habia pensado que iba a ser lenta, triste y no muy agradable. ¡Cual fue mi sorpresa cuando descubri que no es asi! Tiene de todo: descripciones fascinantes de cada detalle de los personajes, relaciones sorprendentemente modernas entre marido y mujer, casos de personas que coquetean y los celos que esto provoca... pero a pesar de lo que indique este resumen, no se parece nada a una telenovela. Me puse a reir varias veces y no me pude acostar hasta que ya supe que habia pasado entre el tio Lucas, el Corregidor, la seña Frasquita y la Corregidora.