Galdos: Dona Perfecta - Paperbackby Graham Whittaker (Editor) Benito Perez Galdos (1843 1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain. Dona Perfecta (1876) was Galdos' first novel delving into the social world of middle class Spain in