Sombrero De Tres Picos El Capitan Veneno

Author : Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534804562
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book El Capitan Veneno. the Hispanic Series written by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story here presented (El Capitán Veneno) and El Sombrero de Tres Picos are now the most read of all of Alarcón's works. El Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de África brought the most fame and money, for at that time the excitement of the country over the war, and the patriotism of the nation, combined for Alarcón's good fortune. Several of the scenes and characters had their prototypes in the Diario. General O'Donnell, Duke of Tetuán, was the original of the brusk, impulsive, but genuine captain. For Alarcón says of General O'Donnell: "The man, prosaic and cold, distrustful of lively imaginations, insensible to every art except the art of war, hostile to beautiful phrases... today spoke with the certain emphasis of the best taste; in the style of the old-time general, like Napoleon at the pyramids". Talking to the Moors through an interpreter, his words were "animated by his attitude, his gestures, his looks.... He questioned them with energy; orated and declaimed with eloquence; now he would rail at them, now flatter them. The Moors read in his face the sentiments that animated him, and the degree of truth, of shrewdness, of calculation, or of passion, that each phrase held".