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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919). Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escándalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays. Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Granada. In 1859, he served in a Spanish military operation in Morocco. He gained his first literary recognition with Diary of a Witness to the African War (1859–1860), a patriotic account of the campaign. Works References World Book encyclopedia 1988 External links Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Internet Archive Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Las Dos Glorias in Spanish with English translation Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Library of Congress, with 186 library catalogue records . Discover the Pedro Antonio De Alarcon popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Pedro Antonio De Alarcon books.