Saragossa

(1899)

A Story of Spanish Valor

Translated by Journalist, Translator, and Author Minna Caroline Smith (1860-1929)

When the other events of the Spanish war shall be lost in the obscurity of time, or only traced by disconnected fragments, the story of Zaragoza, like some ancient triumphal pillar standing amidst ruins, will tell a tale of past glory, and already men point to the heroic city and call her Spain.--Napier's "Peninsular War"

Compared to the likes of authors Charles Dickens, Honore Balzac and Leo Tolstoy, prolific Spanish author Benito Prez Galds wrote a famed series of novels Episodios Nacionales, historical works which include Trafalgar (1873), The Court of Carlos IV (1873), Gerona (1874), Napoleon in Chamartin (1874), Saragossa (1874), and The Battle of the Arapiles (1875).