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Andalusia, early nineteenth century. His Worship the Corregidor is the law — at least, so long as he keeps his hat on his head.
When the magistrate comes calling at the mill on the road outside the city to pursue the beautiful miller's wife, neither the authority of his three-cornered hat nor the splendour of his scarlet cloak will protect him from Tía Frasquita's wit or her husband's cunning. Before the night is over, the hat has changed heads, the law has put on a miller's clothes, and two clever people have decided to teach His Worship a lesson.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's El sombrero de tres picos (1874) is the Spanish comic masterpiece that inspired Manuel de Falla's celebrated 1919 ballet. This is its first modern English literary edition. Translated from the Spanish by Inés Bou, with an Introduction by Idara Crespi.
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- May 2026 Starts: 2026-05-01Ended: 2026-05-26
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Thank you for requesting a copy of The Three-Cornered Hat.
This is Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's 1874 Spanish comic novella — the story that inspired Manuel de Falla's celebrated Ballets Russes ballet, with sets by Picasso. It's short, funny, and as far as we can tell the most cheerful thing in the 19th-century Spanish literary canon. It's been waiting a long time for a proper English edition.
The translation is by Inés Bou, working from the original 1874 Spanish. The volume includes an Introduction by Idara Crespi setting the historical and literary context.
We hope you enjoy it.
Idara Crespi
Espresso Publishing House
