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    A Study Guide for Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The Revolver"
    A Study Guide for Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The Revolver"
    A Study Guide for Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The Revolver"
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    A Study Guide for Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The Revolver"

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    A Study Guide for Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The Revolver", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 13, 2018
    ISBN9781535868136
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      A Study Guide for Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The Revolver" - Gale

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      The Revolver

      Emilia Pardo Bazán

      1895

      Introduction

      El revólver, or The Revolver, is a short story by the prolific and renowned Spanish author Emilia Pardo Bazán, who flourished from the 1880s through the early 1900s. The story focuses on the worn-down Flora, who is trying to recover both her health and her wits after a long trial in her married life. Her husband, who is older than she is, starts to become jealous, and the appearance of the revolver marks a dramatic downturn in Flora's mental and emotional state. First published in Spanish in the periodical El Imparcial in 1895, El revólver was later included in Interiores in 1907 and in volume 2 of Pardo Bazán's Obras complétas: Novelas y cuentos, edited by Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles, in 1947. The story can be found in both Spanish and an English translation by Angel Flores in the collection Spanish Stories/Cuentos españoles (1960).

      Author Biography

      Pardo Bazán was born on September 16, 1851, in La Coruña, Spain, in the northwestern region of Galicia. She was the only child of a mother who had little choice but to content herself with the role of homemaker and a politically active father. He served in the Spanish parliament, the Cortes, beginning in 1854 and after the revolution of 1868 was part of the Constitutional Assembly when his defense of Catholicism as the state religion earned him the title of count, bestowed by the pope. Though the father's politics were conservative, he raised his daughter in a fairly liberal fashion, encouraging and facilitating her extensive reading and education. The family had as an extra residence a country manor house, and the young Pardo Bazán would often be content to sit in a corner all day reading a book, usually found in her father's collections or the libraries of relatives and family friends. Even at a young age, she was especially fond of Homer's Iliad, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, and the Bible. In 1860, when Pardo Bazán was around age eight, the return of Spanish soldiers from the Moroccan War inspired her to start writing poetry, which she continued to do over the years.

      With the family spending winters in Madrid, Pardo Bazán attended a French school for three years, rapidly picking up the language and winning prizes in translation and geography. After the family started staying in La Corunña for winters, when

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