Dimensions
136 x 215 x 36mm
Translated By Lester Clark
A beautiful young woman, Isidora Rufete, comes to Madrid with what she believes is a documentary proof that she and her brother Mariano are the illegitimate grandchildren of the Marquesa de Aransis. She is prepared to risk all for the man she loves, the Marques de Saldeoro, an idle young widower, and for her dream of nobility.
First published in 1881, the first of Galdos's "contemporary novels", 'The Disinherited' is a realist parody of romantic fiction. His portrait of a lady and of a spendthrift society in a capital of sleaze, caught between Revolution and Restoration, remains a pertinent moral lesson for modern times.
