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1878 · Complete work
Marianela
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“When sight threatens to dispel the illusions of love, an outcast girl faces the devastating power of the visible world.”
Set against the harsh industrial landscape of the Socartes mines, this poignant realist drama follows Marianela, an impoverished, physically stunted orphan. She serves as the devoted guide to Pablo, a wealthy young man blind from birth who falls deeply in love with her gentle spirit and poetic soul. When an ambitious surgeon arrives with the promise of restoring Pablo's vision, Marianela is gripped by an agonizing terror: will his newfound sight shatter the idealized bond they share? Pérez Galdós crafts a heartbreaking critique of social inequality, science, and the cruel disparity between internal and external beauty.
25 Episodes · Classic
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Episode 01
~13 min
Episode 1
“Here you have, Teodoro Golfín, the result of your onward, always onward.”
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Episode 02
~9 min
Episode 2
“Instead of answering, the blind youth halted, and giving his voice to the wind with the full power of his lungs, shouted:”
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Episode 03
~14 min
-Iii- · I
““How old are you?” asked Golfín, shaking his fingers to toss away the match, which was beginning to burn him.”
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Episode 04
~13 min
-Iii- · II
““Hand it over; thank you very much, Nela,” said the boy, sitting up to take the coin.”
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Episode 05
~13 min
-Iii- · III
“The hammer, dealing uniform blows, created new forms as hard as those of geology, which are the laborious handiwork of ages.”
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Episode 06
~7 min
-Iii- · IV
““I am going to ask my father to let you live in our house, so that you may never leave me.””
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Episode 07
~11 min
-Vii-
““What are you doing, Nela?” asked the youth after a pause, hearing neither the footsteps, nor the voice, nor the breathing of his companion.”
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Episode 08
~11 min
-Viii- · I
““Nela, I must tell you of something that will make you leap for joy,” said the blind youth when they were far from the house.”
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Episode 09
~11 min
-Viii- · II
““Just the same, yes, just the same,” said Nela with vehement agitation.”
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Episode 10
~12 min
-Viii- · III
““Do not be angry, my dear,” replied Golfín; “all my arguments come to one point, and that is that you ought to have bought shoes for Nela.””
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Episode 11
~11 min
-Viii- · IV
““It was a miracle of God that I recovered in that filthy hovel, a storehouse of old rags, old iron, and old leather.””
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Episode 12
~4 min
-Viii- · V
““So then it all reduces itself to a simple congenital cataract,” said the patriarch eagerly.”
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Episode 13
~7 min
-Xii-
““Listen, my boy, he who gave me that money used to wander through the streets begging alms when he was a child, and afterwards....””
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Episode 14
~7 min
-Xiii-
“This beauty was the Virgin Mary, an acquisition made by her in the domain of the Gospel, which she possessed so imperfectly.”
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Episode 15
~13 min
-Xiv- · I
““Hey!... child,” screamed Señana with a harsh voice, like the most grating sound that can be heard in the world.”
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Episode 17
~7 min
-Xvi-
““In due time it will be known,” said Teodoro, beginning the delicate operation of bandaging.”
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Episode 19
~8 min
-Xviii-
““I am going too,” said Nela with a sudden movement, seizing the arm of the intrepid traveler.”
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Episode 20
~12 min
-Xix- · I
““She is there,” asserted Nela with conviction, turning her eyes sorrowfully to the spot.”
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Episode 21
~13 min
-Xix- · II
““I love her too; but not at Aldeacorba,” said she of the Canela wildly and with excitement.”
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Episode 22
~7 min
-Xix- · III
“And you, when you look at yourself here, do you appear as lovely as you are?”
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Episode 23
~14 min
-Xxi- · I
“Florentina, in the few days of her stay there, had given the room the impress, so to speak, of her own person.”
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Episode 24
~10 min
-Xxi- · II
““I know not what I feel,” he added in confusion, his tongue thick, his face pale.”
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Episode 25
~4 min
-Xxii-
“If an ox had flown before Señana or her husband had reasoned, it would have surprised her no more.”
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Public-domain work (1878). Text: Project Gutenberg #17340. The English version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more