La Regenta; Volume 2

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La Regenta is the great novel of 19th-century Spanish literature. The passions, hatreds, jealousy, and obsessions awakened by Ana Ozores in Vetusta—a fictional representation of Oviedo—serve as a basis for "Clarín" to deliver an unflinching examination of the late 19th-century Spanish bourgeoisie. In Vetusta, the provincial capital, Ana Ozores marries the former Regent of the city's Audiencia, Víctor Quintanar, a kind but eccentric man much older than she. Feeling emotionally abandoned, Ana begins to attract the attention of the provincial seducer Álvaro Mesía. To complicate matters, the canon magistral D. Fermín de Pas, Ana's confessor, also falls in love with her, becoming an unacknowledged rival to Mesía. A rich tapestry of secondary characters, portrayed with merciless irony by Clarín, completes the human landscape of the novel.