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With Its Brooding Noblewoman, Classically Beautiful Nun, And Neurotic Child - Who Is The Grandson Of The Former And The Nephew Of The Latter - The Nun Becomes A Stage As It Represents The Past And The Future Of The Family, The Past And Future Of Spain. Moors And Christians Explores, Humorously And Wisely, The Effects Of Greed, The Nefarious Nature Of Covetousness. Alarcon Subtitled The Tall Woman A Tale Of Fear, And His Protagonist's Hair-raising Brushes With Danger And Evil Remind One Of The Writings Of E.t.a. Hoffmann And Edgar Allan Poe. Don Jorge De Cordoba, The Captain Poison Of Captain Poison, Has Always Seen Himself As An Unabashed Misogynist, But When His Life Is Saved By A Courageous Young Woman, Fate Conspires To Reverse His Outlook.--book Jacket. The Nun -- Captain Poison -- Moors And Christians -- The Tall Woman. By Pedro Antonio De Alarcón ; Translated From The Spanish By Robert M. Fedorchek ; Introduction By Stephen Miller. Includes Bibliographical References.

Author

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Publisher

Bucknell University Press : Associated University Presses

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838754153

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities