CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FORMATIVE PERIOD: FOREIGN INFLUENCES -- THE GENESIS OF GLORIA -- Introduction -- Topography -- The Ambiente Moral -- Religion and Religions -- Krausismo in Other Novels -- Shipwrecks -- Priests - French and Spanish -- Gloria and Sibylle -- Love for a Heretic -- The Bible and a Banquet -- Ivanhoe -- The Jewish Hero -- More about Characters -- The Creative Process -- THE CREATION OF MARIANELA -- Philosophic Symbolism -- Galdós' Contacts with Positivism -- Philosophy in Marianela and Wilhelm Meister -- The Idyllic Element -- Humanitarianism and Hugo -- Details from The Wandering Jew -- The Fusion of the Elements -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.