Project Gutenberg 2025-07-27 Public domain in the USA. 546 Pérez Galdós, Benito 1843 1920 Galdós, Benito Pérez Perez Galdos, Benito Galdós, Pérez Galdós, B. Pérez 10022870 Luchana $aMadrid :$bPerlado, Páez y Compañía, $c1906. Episodios nacionales. Tercera serie https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchana_(episodio_nacional) Ramón Pajares Box. (This book was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/University of Toronto - Robarts Library.) "Luchana" by Benito Pérez Galdós is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. Part of the Episodios Nacionales, it dramatizes the political convulsions of Spain in the 1830s—especially the La Granja uprising and the liberal push to restore the 1812 Constitution—interwoven with the personal story of the young protagonist Fernando Calpena and those around him. Expect a blend of eyewitness chronicle, irony, and romantic undercurrents. The opening of the novel unfolds through a sharp, ironic letter from a “señora incógnita” who witnesses the tense hours at La Granja: soldiers murmur, the Himno de Riego rings out, and sargentos press the Regent, María Cristina, to proclaim the Constitution of 1812. Inside a drab archive room, two sargents—timid yet firm—debate the Regent and her courtiers; a naive soldier’s answers add comic pathos, and a minister’s legal quibble about the regency article briefly stalls things before the Regent yields and signs the decree. The scene shifts to Laguardia, where Fernando Calpena—recovering from a wound—reads these letters to a cautious local tertulia, then navigates household life with the pious Navarridas family. A subplot emerges: Demetria’s guardians arrange a grand match with the impeccably virtuous don Rodrigo de Urdaneta Idiáquez, while Fernando, skeptical of such perfection and intent on pursuing his beloved Aura, prepares to depart. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/luchana00prez 20250615034125prezgalds 1906 ES Reading ease score: 61.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. es Spain -- History -- Carlist War, 1833-1840 -- Fiction PQ Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels 634394 2025-07-30T08:45:37.273301 text/html 609360 2025-07-27T10:32:37 text/html 470354 2025-07-30T08:45:46.795256 application/epub+zip 467114 2025-07-30T08:45:39.036360 application/epub+zip 405502 2025-07-30T08:45:38.241378 application/epub+zip 636587 2025-07-30T08:45:52.778294 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 583708 2025-07-30T08:45:46.078306 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 586742 2025-07-30T08:45:36.370369 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 566934 2025-07-27T10:32:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14360 2025-07-30T08:45:52.956270 application/rdf+xml 11710 2025-07-30T08:45:38.451320 image/jpeg 2855 2025-07-30T08:45:38.342321 image/jpeg 395586 2025-07-30T08:45:37.334330 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 en.wikipedia