Martha Hofmeister
For a 200 year old book, this holds up well. Maybe I am biased by my recent trip to Southern Spain, where I stayed at the parador on the grounds of the Alhambra and in Seville, also touring Cordòba and Toledo, but Irving's descriptions and turns of phrase summon up a lovely, conflicted land full of kings and commoners and ghosts. A classic--in the good way.