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Lazarillo De Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin Classics)
Lazarillo De Tormes and the Swindler Two Spanish Picaresque Novels - Penguin Classics
Author: Francisco De Quevedo
The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pícaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), published anonymously, provided a literary model for Cervantes' Don Quixo...  more » and describes the ingenious ruses employed by a boy from Salamanca to outwit a succession of disreputable masters. Francisco de Quevedo's The Swindler (1626) is a comic yet brutal and sordid account of a servant who wants to become a gentleman but ends up a cardsharp and common criminal.
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ISBN-13: 9780140449006
ISBN-10: 0140449000
Publication Date: 8/26/2003
Pages: 240
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