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Marianela By Benito Pérez Galdós Translated into modern English by Clara Montoya When the blind young heir Pablo Penáguilas recovers his sight, he discovers that the world he imagined—the beauty, the love, the faith he believed in—looks nothing like what he expected. And Marianela, the poor girl who guided him through darkness, realises that light can be more merciless than blindness. Set among the bleak mining villages of northern Spain, Marianela is Benito Pérez Galdós’s most tender and devastating novel: a story of compassion and illusion, beauty and self-worth, and the cruel clarity of truth. This new translation by Clara Montoya restores the warmth, wit and humanity of Galdós’s original Spanish, bringing nineteenth-century Spain vividly to life for today’s readers.