Zalacaín the Adventurer is one of the most popular novels by a member of the Generation of '98, and yet book and author are largely unknown in this country. Pio Baroja wrote more than 100 works and has been published as recently as 1995 in Spain. There's even a promenade, Paseo Pio Baroja, in San S...

La obra narra las aventuras y desventuras de un muchacho vasco, Martín Zalacaín, nacido en Urbía y criado por el viejo Miguel Tellagorri, un cínico de la taberna del Arcale. Su hermana, la Ñasía o Ignacia es pretendida de amores por el señorito Carlos de Ohando, su enemigo y hermano de Catali...