Excerpt from El Capitan Veneno: Captain (Venom/Poison) The chief reason which has caused the translator to publish this little novel is that it seems to him to be one of the most delightful and satisfactory short stories with which he is acquainted. It has both humor and pathos and a most charming heroine who has courage, decision and womanly pride and, at the same time, a most engaging gentleness and feminine sympathy. The hero, a brutally frank, half savage but brave man, laboring under the delusion that he hates women, has some claim to nobility of character. The story is an interesting contrast to the present tendency in novels toward studies of discontented women and distressing social conditions. Another reason for publishing it is that we, in this country, now that we are trying to cultivate closer trade relations with Spanish America, should know something of Spanish literature both of the old world and the new. Such a knowledge would help us to understand the people with whom we have to deal. 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.