El Doctor Centeno (Tomo II)

by Benito Pérez Galdós

"El Doctor Centeno (Tomo II)" by Benito Pérez Galdós is a novel published in 1883. It follows the misadventures of Felipe Centeno, a young man who arrives in Madrid hoping to study medicine. Instead, he becomes entangled in the lives of struggling characters—a priest without vocation, an artistic but reckless law student, and others navigating poverty and disillusionment. As Felipe moves between households and witnesses hidden affairs and declining fortunes, his dreams of becoming a doctor fade into the harsh realities of survival in nineteenth-century Madrid.