A Shameful Revenge and Other Stories (The Folio Society)

x, 200 pp. A collection of short stories, translated into English from the original Spanish by John Sturrock, with illustrations by Eric Fraser. Part of the Spanish Golden Age of literature, de Zayas is viewed by some modern critics as a pioneer of literary feminism. Includes: The Ravages of Vice; An Innocent Punished; A Shameful Revenge; Forewarned But Forestalled; A Traitor to His Own Flesh and Blood; No Good Comes from Marrying Foreigners; There Always Comes the Reckoning; A Mistake Discovered Too Late.