La Corte de los Milagros

SOFTBACK ?SPANISH LANGUAGE, AUSTRAL EDITION No. 1296? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 1973* Publisher: Espasa-Calpe, S.A.* Binding and cover condition: Blue & white soft card covers with black titles to spine & face, no bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, very slight creases to spine & hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Some neat annotations and underlining to first third of text, no other marks or tanning. GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 256 pp. text. xvi pp. index & advertising list at rear.* Product Description:- Dramatist, poet and novelist, he was part of the movement, the generation of 98. In his teenage years he travelled to Mexico and settled in Madrid from 1897. He was Professor of aesthetics at the Academy of fine arts of San Fernando. He is known as one of the bohemian poets both for the extravagance of his appearance (with a scruffy beard of almost half a meter) and his extravagant lifestyle in Madrid. This story is based around the ?Court of Miracles? in Paris where beggars populate a square during the day feigning blindness and other disabilities. When night falls however they miraculously recover and live a life of debauchery on the proceeds of their duplicity. The novel is the first of a series of writings about Spanish history from Queen Elizabeth?s era and the parallel is drawn between her court and the ?Court of Miracles?. This is a NEAR FINE copy with annotations & minimal shelf wear reducing it to GD+*