C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837)
Larra, Mariano José de (lär’ä). A Spanish playwright and journalist; born at Madrid, 1809, committed suicide, Feb. 13, 1837. He adapted to the Spanish stage several French comedies, and wrote a tragedy, ‘Macias’ (1834), on the tragic ending of a famous Galician troubadour. His principal work is ‘From 1830 to 1835, or Spain from Fernando VII. to Mendizabal’ (1836).