author
condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
1852–1921
A fearless Spanish novelist and critic, she helped bring literary naturalism into Spain while also speaking out for women's education and intellectual freedom. Her fiction blends sharp social observation with strong, memorable characters.
25 Audiobooks
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
Una Cristiana
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Un viaje de novios
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
A Wedding Trip
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Cuentos de navidad y reyes; cuentos de la patria; cuentos antiguos
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Morriña (Homesickness)
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Dulce Dueño
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
El Tesoro de Gastón: Novela
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
The Swan of Vilamorta
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La Tribuna
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin (Louis XVII)
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Los pazos de Ulloa
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Le Naturalisme
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La Sirena Negra
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La madre naturaleza (2ª parte de Los pazos de Ulloa)
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
El cisne de Vilamorta
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La Quimera
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La prueba
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Insolación y Morriña (Dos historias amorosas)
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
A Christian Woman
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La dama joven
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Cuentos de amor
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
Russia: Its People and Its Literature
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
La piedra angular: novela
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
En tranvía : Cuentos dramáticos
by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán
About the author
Born in A Coruña in 1851, Emilia Pardo Bazán became one of the most important Spanish writers of her time. She wrote novels, short stories, essays, journalism, criticism, poetry, and plays, and she was widely recognized for her energy as both a creative writer and a public intellectual.
She is especially known for helping introduce naturalism into Spanish literature, most famously through her 1883 essay La cuestión palpitante. Among her best-known novels are Los pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza, works admired for their vivid settings and close attention to class, power, and human behavior.
Pardo Bazán was also ahead of her time in defending women's rights to education and cultural life. Later in her career, she became the first woman to hold a chair at the University of Madrid, even though she was repeatedly denied entry to the Royal Spanish Academy. She died in Madrid in 1921, leaving behind a body of work that still feels bold, intelligent, and modern.