 "Marianela", one of his more prominent novels of the first epoch, is the story of a tragic relationship between a blind man and an ignorant, ugly girl.The girl flees when her loved one recovers his sight, afraid to show her face to him; she dies, heartbroken, when he marries another woman.Later, between 1881 and 1915, he published 24 novels, which represent a "human comedy" of the daily life of Madrid.