La obra mas importante de Alarcon, El sombrero de tres picos (1873), retoma el motivo popular del corregidor que quiere seducir a la molinera. Anos despues inspiro al andaluz Manuel de Falla su famoso ballet. Alarcon's most important work, El sombrero de tres picos (1873) takes up the theme of the magistrate who wants to seduce the miller's daughter. Years later, it would inspire the great Andalusian composer Manuel de Falla's famous ballet. A panorama of 19th Century Spanish society, through its literature and its nobility...The bitter nationalist apologies of the author may be surprising, as he reveals the rifts caused by the meeting of modernism with the Spanish culture.