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La Regenta (Penguin Classics) by Leopoldo Alas

By Leopoldo Alas

Married to the retired Justice of the Peace of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her a lot older husband yet feels stifled through the monotony of her existence within the shabby and conservative provincial city. And whilst she embarks on a quest for achievement via faith or even adultery, a sour fight starts among a strong priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate younger woman's physique and soul. Scandalizing modern Spain while it used to be first released in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank therapy of intercourse, los angeles Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the complacent and frivolous international of upper-class society.

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Farrinder imposed herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in her eye, which was large, cold, and quiet; it had acquired a sort of exposed reticence from the habit of looking down from a lecture-desk, over a sea 50 of heads, while its distinguished owner was eulogised by a leading citizen. Mrs. Farrinder, at almost any time, had the air of being introduced by a few remarks. She talked with great slowness and distinctness, and evidently a high sense of responsibility; she pronounced every syllable of every word and insisted on being explicit.

Prance) suspended from one of the windows of the basement, and a peculiar look of being both new and faded—a kind of modern fatigue— like certain articles of commerce which are sold at a reduction as shop-worn. The hall was very narrow; a considerable part of it was occupied by a large hat-tree, from which several coats and shawls already depended; the rest offered space for certain lateral demonstrations on Miss Birdseye's part. She sidled about her visitors, and at last went round to open for them a door of further admission, which happened to be locked inside.

Such a mood, however, could only be momentary, for he was conscious at bottom of a bigger stomach than all the culture of Charles Street could fill. Afterwards, when his cousin had come back and they had gone down to dinner together, where he sat facing her at a little table decorated in the middle with flowers, a position from which he had another view, through a window where the curtain remained undrawn by her direction (she called his attention to this—it was for his benefit), of the dusky, empty river, spotted with points of 29 light—at this period, I say, it was very easy for him to remark to himself that nothing would induce him to make love to such a type as that.

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