Winner of the 2017 Peter Bly Award of the Asociaci n Internacional de Galdosistas Rich and Poor follows Gald s's narrative of the ascent of the bourgeoisie in the speculative climate which resulted from the economic policies of the liberal State. The book also considers the way he portrays the consequences of these policies on the people left behind by the development of capitalism in Spain. Ridao Carlini brings recent scholarship on nineteenth-century...