Pedro Sanchez, by Pereda

Abstract

This novel,^l83 one of the author’s best, is the history of the experiences a young man gathered in the days of the revolution of 1854. Having come to Madrid in the hope of finding protection in a prominent personage, he is left to make his own way. In a newspaper office he rises to distinction, and achieves great fame in the revolt, in consequence of which he rapidly advances, even to a Governorship, which advancement is due in part to the support the afore-mentioned personage now sees fit to bestow upon him, together with the hand of his ambitious daughter. The end of our hero’s political life comes when he discovers how he is made the instrument of peculiations, and has been betrayed by his wife for the sake of upholding her social rank. Then he withdraws from the field, and retires to his native place to lead the life of an enlightened farmer.