author
Armando Palacio Valdés
1853–1938
Best known for warm, realistic novels set in Asturias, this Spanish writer paired sharp social observation with an unusually hopeful view of ordinary life. His fiction helped make him one of the most widely read Spanish novelists of his era.
33 Audiobooks
Los Puritanos, y otros cuentos
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La voz de la conseja, t.1 Selección de las mejores novelas breves y cuentos de los más esclarecidos literatos
by Pío Baroja, Jacinto Benavente, Rubén Darío, Joaquín Dicenta, Ricardo León, Pedro Mata, José Nogales, Armando Palacio Valdés, condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro de Répide, Arturo Reyes, Miguel de Unamuno
El maestrante
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Riverita
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Maximina
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Maximina
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Aguas fuertes
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Tristán o el pesimismo
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Marta y María: novela de costumbres
by Armando Palacio Valdés
José
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La guerre injuste: lettres d'un Espagnol
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La novela de un novelista
by Armando Palacio Valdés
El idilio de un enfermo
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La Espuma Obras completas de D. Armando Palacio Valdés, Tomo 7.
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Años de juventud del doctor Angélico
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La aldea perdida Novela-poema de costumbres campesinas
by Armando Palacio Valdés
The Fourth Estate, vol. 1
by Armando Palacio Valdés
El señorito Octavio
by Armando Palacio Valdés
The Grandee
by Armando Palacio Valdés
El origen del pensamiento
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Papeles del doctor Angélico
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Froth: A Novel
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La Fe
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Semblanzas literarias
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La alegría del capitán Ribot
by Armando Palacio Valdés
El cuarto poder
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Los majos de Cádiz
by Armando Palacio Valdés
Páginas escogidas
by Armando Palacio Valdés
The Joy of Captain Ribot
by Armando Palacio Valdés
The Fourth Estate, vol. 2
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La hermana San Sulpicio
by Armando Palacio Valdés
La guerra injusta; cartas de un español
by Armando Palacio Valdés
The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María): A Realistic Social Novel
by Armando Palacio Valdés
About the author
Born in Entrialgo, Asturias, on October 4, 1853, Armando Palacio Valdés studied law in Madrid but turned toward literature and journalism. Early on he wrote criticism and essays, and he became associated with the realist tradition in Spanish fiction.
His reputation rests mainly on his novels, many of them rooted in Asturian life and remembered for their clear storytelling, humor, and sympathy for everyday people. Works such as Marta y María and José helped establish him as one of the notable Spanish novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Palacio Valdés died in Madrid on January 29, 1938. He is still remembered for fiction that balanced social detail with warmth and optimism, giving his books an inviting, human scale.