Der Dreispitz by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
"Der Dreispitz" by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón is a novella published in 1874. Set in an Andalusian town around 1805, it tells the story of a miller and his beautiful wife Frasquita, whose peaceful life is disrupted when a powerful magistrate, the Corregidor, becomes infatuated with her. When the Corregidor schemes to separate the couple, a night of misunderstandings and mistaken identities unfolds, leading to jealousy, attempted revenge, and comedic chaos that
threatens two marriages. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de, 1833-1891 |
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| Translator | Meister, Hulda, 1846-1918 |
| Uniform Title | El sombrero de tres picos. German |
| Title | Der Dreispitz |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Dreispitz_(Novelle) |
| Credits |
Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Matthias Grammel, Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Husband and wife -- Fiction |
| Subject | Andalusia (Spain) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Spanish fiction -- Translations into German |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 50216 |
| Release Date | Oct 14, 2015 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 22, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 386 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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