Armando Palacio Valdés

This is a book of short stories by Armando Palacio Valdes (1853-1938), a Spanish writer well-known for his novels, which include Sister Saint Sulpice and The Fourth Estate. Although his novels were very popular in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century, Palacio Valdes's shorter pieces were never published in book form and the present volume is, in fact, the first collection of his stories in English translation. Many readers will only now be acquainted with.