Travels into Spain

<p>'Of all literary fakes this is surely the most impudent ingenious and successful. The Comtesse D'Aulnoy was never in Spain (but) she was a born traveller. Not without reason have the editors of The Broadway Travellers included her fiction in their library of fact. For despite its falseness it is intellectually the real thing.' <em>Saturday Review</em><br>However her work is judged today it seems certain that Madame D'Aulnoy was one of the most widely-read and most popular authors of her time. Seeing Spain at a strange moment in her history it is the end of a great age. The last descendent of Charles V is king; after him the nation is destined to enter upon a new phase under a new dynasty. After reading this journey we see and touch Spain and the reader can judge the Spanish character from a witness who saw it.</p>