Los pazos de Ulloa

by Emilia Pardo Bazán

"Los pazos de Ulloa" by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán is a novel published in 1886. A young priest arrives at a decaying Galician manor to serve as administrator, only to find his nobleman employer living in moral disorder. The estate is controlled by a cunning and violent servant whose daughter is the nobleman's mistress. When the nobleman marries a gentle woman from Santiago, the household's dark power struggles intensify, threatening everyone caught within the crumbling walls of the pazos.