author
Enrique Pérez Escrich
1829–1897
A hugely popular 19th-century Spanish novelist and playwright, he built his reputation on emotional, moralizing serial fiction that reached a wide reading public. His stories were written to grip ordinary readers, blending drama, sentiment, and social feeling.
2 Audiobooks
Fortuna
by Enrique Pérez Escrich
Historia de um beijo
by Enrique Pérez Escrich
About the author
Born in Valencia on October 6, 1829, Enrique Pérez Escrich became one of the best-known Spanish writers of serial fiction in the 19th century. He also wrote for the stage and used the pseudonyms Carlos Peña-Rubia and Tello.
He moved to Madrid while still young and found his greatest success there, especially with works aimed at a broad popular audience. He is often remembered as a master of the folletín, the serialized novel form that thrived in newspapers and captivated readers with strong emotion, cliffhangers, and moral conflict.
Pérez Escrich died in Madrid on April 24, 1897. Though tastes changed after his lifetime, his career offers a vivid glimpse of a period when fiction was closely tied to the rhythms of the press and to the everyday reading habits of the public.