Note {163-1} — Front matter (continued 3)
Reading edition
Page 163.—1.{163-1} For the life and works of Pereda, see page xi, of the Introduction. The text of La leva is taken from the Obras completas de D. José M. de Pereda, Tomo V, Escenas Montañesas, Madrid, 1901. La leva consists of several more or less detached incidents. Some of these incidents, in whole or in part, have been selected for this volume, the selections amounting in all to two-thirds of the entire story. For the complete story, the reader is referred to Escenas Montañesas. La leva is a realistic description of the life of the fisher-folk of Santander in Northern Spain, and of the distress caused amongst these poor people by compulsory service in the Spanish navy.