Project Gutenberg 2014-12-07 Public domain in the USA. 155 Fernández y González, Manuel 1821 1888 Fernandez y Gonzalez, Manuel González, Manuel Fernández y La vieja verde: Estudios al natural Produced by Chuck Greif, Biblioteca nacional de España and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "La vieja verde: Estudios al natural" by Manuel Fernández y González is a literary work likely written in the late 19th century. This narrative seems to blend elements of social observation and character study, focusing on relationships between characters in a café setting. Central to the opening is the character Doña Emerenciana, an intriguing woman whose physical allure and past set the stage for complex interactions with other characters, including her friend Doña Rufa and an unnamed narrator who finds himself both enchanted and embroiled in the dynamics of their lives. The opening of the work describes a wintry night in Madrid, establishing an atmospheric café where two main female characters, Doña Emerenciana and Doña Rufa, are introduced. While Emerenciana is portrayed as an alluring yet financially independent woman, Rufa is depicted as contrastingly unattractive and often unkempt. The narrator, intrigued by the vivacious Emerenciana, engages in a budding flirtation that hints at deeper entanglements as the night unfolds. As relationships develop, they tease themes of deception and desire, drawing the reader into an exploration of the boundaries between youth and age, love and ambition, all set against the backdrop of a vibrant urban milieu. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. es Historical fiction PQ Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels 282123 2025-06-19T07:41:49.054760 text/html 270417 2024-10-24T12:47:24 text/html 443327 2025-06-19T07:41:55.772784 application/epub+zip 447135 2025-06-19T07:41:50.004760 application/epub+zip 164049 2025-06-19T07:41:49.510738 application/epub+zip 574282 2025-06-19T07:41:59.975770 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 548134 2025-06-19T07:41:55.273796 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266107 2022-09-21T15:17:38.522299 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 245393 2023-09-20T13:55:22.477700 text/plain 225505 2024-10-24T12:47:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15840 2025-06-19T07:42:00.125730 application/rdf+xml 23591 2025-06-19T07:41:49.613760 image/jpeg 3726 2025-06-19T07:41:49.560779 image/jpeg 436703 2025-06-19T07:41:49.090760 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog es.wikipedia