The Mayflower (Flor de mayo): A Tale of the Valencian Seashore

Vicente Blasco Ib ez was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) It is a tale of the Valencian seashore. The sea, off the Caba al, was in flat calm, as smooth as a polished mirror. Not the slightest ripple broke the shimmering triangular wake that the sun sent shoreward over the lifeless surface of the water.