Juan Valera

Pepita Jiménez (2004)

Blonde, beautiful, with mesmerizing green eyes. She was born poor, and was married, while just in her teens, to an 80-year-old rich man who died three years later for trying hard to consummate the union (the novel does not say this, but that is what I imagined him doing every day prior to his dea...

Juanita La Larga (2000)