Note J — Front matter
Reading edition
Don Benito Pérez Galdós, born May 10, 1845, at Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Attended the institute at Las Palmas, and in 1863 went to Madrid to read law. A republican deputy in the Cortes. Novels: Episodios nacionales (40 vols.), and about forty other novels, of which the most popular are: Trafalgar (1873), Zaragoza (1874), Doña Perfecta (1876), Gloria, 2 vols. (1877), Marianela (1878), La familia de León Roch, 3 vols. (1878). Fortunata y Jacinta, 4 vols. (1886), Miau (1888), Ángel Guerra, 3 vols. (1890-91), La loca de la casa (1892). Dramas: Los condenados, La fiera, Electra (1901), Alma y vida, Amor ó ciencia, Mariucha, et al. He has also dramatized the following of his novels: Realidad, La loca de la casa, La de San Quentín, Doña Perfecta, et al.