Froth

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ignacio Zuloaga, Julio Romero de Torres and Joaquín Sorolla. Madrid society at the end of the century: a duchess's salon, a stock-jobbing husband, a young man learning that everyone in the room is bought. Palacio Valdés trained as a lawyer in Asturias, turned from criticism to fiction, and became the most translated Spanish novelist of his day —...