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"Misericordia," written and published in 1897, is one of Galdós's best works. A testament to his ideological disillusionment with the failure of the regenerationist objectives he dreamed of in the middle class, the people are its greatest protagonist. Galdós is the literary painter of 19th-century Madrid, which he recreates throughout the novel: its streets, its most popular neighborhoods, the cafes and taverns, the cheap restaurants and boarding houses, the commercial stalls of some squares, the oratories and churches, the cemeteries... And along with this, a magnificent collection of characters who move from the real to the imaginative, from the tangible to the symbolic in a careful mixture that extends throughout the work.