"El Doctor Centeno (novela completa)" by Benito Pérez Galdós is a novel published in 1883. It follows Felipe Centeno, a provincial adolescent who arrives in Madrid hoping to study medicine. Instead, he becomes a modern-day Lazarillo, navigating the capital's streets while serving different masters—including a romantic law student and a priest with secrets. Through Felipe's eyes, Galdós captures the vivid world of nineteenth-century Madrid, introducing characters who would return in subsequent novels, making this work a doorway into his interconnected literary universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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