THE SHADOW OF THE CATHEDRAL

BY

VICENTE BLASCO IBAÑEZ


1919


Translated From The Spanish By
Mrs. W.A. Gillespie

With A Critical Introduction By
W.D. Howells




INTRODUCTION


There are three cathedrals which I think will remain chief of the
Spanish cathedrals in the remembrance of the traveller, namely the
Cathedral at Burgos, the Cathedral at Toledo, and the Cathedral at
Seville; and first of these for reasons hitherto of history and art,
and now of fiction, will be the Cathedral at Toledo, which the most
commanding talent among the contemporary Spanish novelists has made
the protagonist of the romance following. I do not mean that Vincent
Blasco Ibañez is greater than Perez Galdós, or Armando Palacio Valdés