Spanish classics

A country gentleman sets out to right wrongs with Sancho Panza, mistaking ordinary life for knightly adventure.

A hungry boy serves successive masters in Spain, learning to survive their cruelty, greed and pretensions.

A boy from Segovia tries to rise in society through encounters with hunger, beggars and false gentlemen.

A wealthy wife and a poor young woman love the same man across Madrid's divisions of class.

A young priest enters a decaying Galician manor where fear and habit hold greater sway than faith or law.

A young man's preparations for priesthood are unsettled when he returns to Andalusia and falls for a widow.

A poor orphan finds affection guiding a blind young man, but fears losing the companionship that sustains her.

An official's pursuit of a miller's wife sets off tricks, mistaken identities and jealousy in southern Spain.

A bullfighter rises from poverty in Seville, then risks his settled life through attraction to a higher-born woman.

A family in France and Germany faces conflicting personal ties and national loyalties when the First World War begins.

A doctor measures himself against his childhood friend, allowing envy of the painter's success to shape his life.

A wealthy young man's pursuit of love leads him to question his freedom and control over his own existence.

A dismissed Treasury official hopes to regain his post while unemployment puts pressure on his family in Madrid.

Stories of tenderness, bitterness and desire explore conflicts between personal feelings and the expectations of marriage, family and church.

Young love on a Galician estate encounters family secrets, social divisions and the conflict between nature and human obligations.

An imprisoned prince receives royal authority, testing his father's fear that he is destined to become a tyrant.

A village confronts an abusive knight whose misuse of power threatens its people and two young lovers.

Poems, legends and prose sketches bring love and loss together with ghosts, curses and encounters with the supernatural.

A priest's attempts to win women's love mingle desire, moral lessons and doubts about what good love means.

A Carmelite nun recounts childhood, illness and prayer while examining her visions and fears of spiritual delusion.