Book excerpt: Excerpt from Spanish Short Stories: Edited With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary, And Exercises Although modern realism triumphed ih Spain only with the coming of Fernán Caballero's La gaviota ih 1848, the ground was prepared ih advance by several writers, the more important of whom are Larra, Estebanez de Calderón and Mesonero Romanos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.