Excerpt from Pepita Jimenez Coincident with the romanticists, and even antedating them, ' was the little group of cgstumbrislas, writers upon local customs and manners, whose essays are now one of the most valuable sources of information in regard to the life and society of the romantic period. Of these incipient realists the best known are' Serafin Este'banez Calderon (el whose reputation owes much to the biography of his late nephew, the statesman Canovas del Castillo; Larra, under the pseudonym of Figaro. 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."