
Nota de transcripción
The narrative opens with a nostalgic inventory of a vanished household, where the voices of former guests still echo through crumbling corridors and a lingering scent of frying food. As the storyteller tracks the fates of once‑vibrant students, ambitious engineers, and a fledgling minister, the listener is drawn into a mosaic of personal ambitions, political upheavals, and quiet betrayals that shaped a generation. The vivid portrait of Doña Virginia—a striking, formidable matriarch whose beauty is matched only by her iron will—anchors the recollections, while the enigmatic figures around her hint at unseen motives and lingering mysteries.
In the present, the narrator gently urges memory to set aside grief and to reconstruct the house’s labyrinthine hallways, broken mats, and the loyal dog that paced between rooms. This careful reconstruction becomes a meditation on how time reshapes identity, how friendships survive or dissolve, and how the remnants of a once‑bustling home continue to influence the lives of those who once passed through its doors. The first act sets a tone of reflective intrigue, inviting listeners to explore a world where personal histories intertwine with the broader currents of early twentieth‑century Spain.
Language
es
Duration
~6 hours (354K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Josep Cols Canals, Ramon Pajares Box and the Distributed Proofreading team at DP-test Italia.
Release date
2018-06-03
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1843–1920
A giant of Spanish realism, he turned the dramas of everyday life into vivid, deeply human fiction. His novels capture the social and political tensions of 19th-century Spain with wit, sympathy, and an unforgettable eye for detail.
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