La Regenta

Ana Ozores, the bored and idealistic wife of the former magistrate of Vetusta, is courted by the town's Don Juan and by its ambitious canon. Clarín's long masterpiece lays bare the gossip, hypocrisy and religious fervour of a provincial cathedral city. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.