1886The House of Ulloa
Emilia Pardo Bazán
A mild young priest, Julián, comes to serve at the decaying manor of Ulloa in the wild Galician countryside, and finds it ruled by the brutish young marquis Don Pedro, his cunning majordomo Primitivo, and the coarse life of the estate. Pardo Bazán's naturalist masterpiece maps a real rural Galicia: the crumbling pazo among the hills, the surrounding hunting country, the city of Santiago de Compostela where Don Pedro takes a gentle wife, and the villages run by the caciques who really hold power.
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