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Feb. 18, 2012
Leopoldo Alas
Biography
Spanish realist (1852-1901) best known for the novel _La regenta_. Alas is also known as Clarín.
Books
Benedictino
by Leopoldo Alas
Price:
$1.55 USD.
Words: 4,670.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 18, 2012
by
Fario.
Categories:
Fiction » Literary collections » European / Spanish & Portuguese
For years, the aging civil servant Abel had been saving, for just the right occasion, two bottles of a precious liquor made by the monks of a Benedictine abbey. But in a cruel irony one of the bottles is uncorked by his friend Joaquín (known as Cain) in circumstances altogether different from those he had envisaged.