The Lady Bandit

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist.

These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain – sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining.

But if you decide to visit, beware the Lady Bandit, whose strong, rough hands might grab your neck, and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze . . .