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Pérez Galdós, detail of an oil painting by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida By courtesy of the Hispanic Society of America

Benito Pérez Galdós ( May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). There are 235 days remaining. Events 1200-1899 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England. 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the... May 10, Events February 6 - The first United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). February 11 - Giuseppe Verdis opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan May 18 - The Disruption of the Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh May 22 - The first major wagon train headed for... 1843 – January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 361 days remaining (362 in leap years). Events 871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex fights a Danish invasion army . 1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey . 1642 - English Civil War... January 4, 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. January 10 - League of Nations holds its first meeting... 1920) was a The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Galician: Reino da España) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the... Spanish A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. The English word novel derives from the Italian word novella, meaning a tale, a piece of news. The novel is longer (40,000 words and onwards) and... novelist. Considered by many second only to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616), was a Spanish author, best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. Biography Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born to a family of modest means in 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. He never obtained a university education... Cervantes in stature, Pérez Galdós was the greatest Spanish Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. However, the term realism is used, with varying meanings, in several of the liberal arts; particularly painting, literature, and philosophy. It is also used in international relations. In the visual arts and... realist novelist. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spanish city, the capital city of Gran Canaria one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, 210 kilometers located off the northwestern coast of Africa. It is also the capital of the province of Las Palmas and co-capital of the autonomous... Las Palmas, Canary Islands, he moved to This article is about the Spanish capital. For other entries, see Madrid (disambiguation). Coat of arms The Plaza de España square Madrid, the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25N, 3°45W. Population of the city of Madrid proper was... Madrid at the age of 20 where he spent most of his adult life. Within Spain his most popular works are the earlier works – the Episodios nacionales (46 volumes). Outside Spain it was the Novelas españolas contemporáneas which grip the imagination.

The early novels mix historical and fictional characters and are the result of documentary research. As with Balzac, some characters appear in separate novels. They cover the period from 1805 to the end of the century. We see glimpses of Benito's liberal and anti-clerical views which become more developed in the contemporary novels. In Doña Perfecta (1876) a young liberal comes to a stiflingly clerical town. In Miau (1888) a pretentious family lose their livelihood when the father, an elderly civil servant, loses his job through a change in government, and eventually commits suicide. Pérez Galdós' masterpiece is Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-7). It is almost as long as War and Peace and concerns the fortunes of four characters: a young man about town, his wife, his lower-class mistress and her husband. Ángel Guerra (1891) is the story of an unbalanced man who attempts to win a devout and inaccessible woman, swinging from Agnosticism is the philosophical and theological view that the existence of God, gods or deities is either unknown or inherently unknowable. The term and the related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 and are also used to describe those who are unconvinced or noncommittal about the existence... agnosticism to This article considers Catholicism in the broadest ecclesiastical sense. See Catholicism (disambiguation) for alternative meanings Catholicism has two main ecclesiastical meanings, described in Websters Dictionary as: a) the whole orthodox christian church, or adherence thereto; and b) the doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto... Catholicism in the process. Pérez Galdós is more Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. However, the term realism is used, with varying meanings, in several of the liberal arts; particularly painting, literature, and philosophy. It is also used in international relations. In the visual arts and... realistic than Balzac or Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й) (September 9 (August 28, O.S.), 1828 - November 20 (November 7, O.S.), 1910) was a Russian novelist, reformer, and moral thinker, notable for... Tolstoy, and like Charles Dickens used his rich imagination, sense of humour and detailed memories, particularly of his childhood, to enliven his fiction. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870), pen-name “ Boz”, was an English novelist of the Victorian era. The popularity of his novels and... Dickens, depicts middle-class snobbishness and fear of poverty. Hardly any of his writings were available in English until the 1950s and are still increasing in popularity.

In 1897, Pérez Galdós was elected to the The Real Academia Española ( Spanish for Royal Spanish Academy; often RAE) is the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in 21 Spanish-speaking nations. Functions The RAE has as its goal the preservation and... Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), and in 1907 he became a deputy for the republican party in the The Cortes Generales (English: General Courts) is the Spanish legislature. It is a bicameral parliament, composed of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house, and the Senate, the upper house. The Cortes has power to enact any law and to amend the constitution. However, because Spain is a European Union... Madrid parliament. He went blind in 1912 but continued to dictate his books for the rest of his life. His plays are less successful, though Realidad (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre.

There have been many films of his novels: Beauty in Chains (Doña Perfecta) was directed by Elsie Jane Wilson (November 7, 1890 - January 16, 1965) was a cinema actress, director and writer. Wilson was born in New Zealand. A professional actress from the age of two, she followed her husband Rupert Julian to United States in 1913, where both found work as actors in Universal silent... Elsie Jane Wilson in 1918. Luis Buñuel, in a mean-spirited mood, failed to credit the fact that Viridiana (1961) was based on Halma. He made another adaption with Nazarín in 1959, and his Tristana (1970) was similarly based on Pérez Galdós. El Abuelo (The Grandfather), filmed by José Luis Garci in 1998, was released at international level a year later. But his chance at long-lasting international fame was sabotaged by his own jealous countrymen, when they launched a slander campaign against him after learning that he would be nominated for the The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme commendation in the world today. The prizes were instituted by the final will... Nobel Prize.

Benito Pérez Galdós died at the age of 76. Shortly before his death, a statue in his honor was constructed in the Afonso XII Mausoleum Palacio de Cristal The Parque del Buen Retiro (Park of the Pleasant Retreat) is a large and popular, 140 hectare (350 acre) (1.4 km²) park in Madrid, Spain not far from the Prado Museum. Once outside the city, Madrid now entirely surrounds the park. The... Parque del Retiro, the most popular park in Madrid, financed solely by public donations.

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