The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Author:Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BOOK describes Lazarillo de Tormes as " a worE of genius unlike anything that had preceded it. Its object is to give J IS Ticknori a pungent satire... more » on all classes of opinion of . r, f '71 the work. society. It is written in a very bold, rich, and idiomatic Castilian style. Some of its sketches are among the most fresh and spirited that can be found in the whole range of prose works of fiction. Those of the friar and the seller of Indulgences were put under the ban of the Church." They were expurgated by the Inquisition in 1573, when an expurgated edition was published at Madrid, and in the Index Expurgatorius of 1667. The first edition in Spain was published at Burgos in 15 54.2 It is excessively rare. There is a copy at Chatsworth, but none in ™ m Tv 1 r Fir"edition- the British Museum. The Duke of Devonshire allowed the late Mr. H. Butler 1 History of Spanish Literature, i. 469-71. 2 Brunei mentions an Antwerp edition of 1553. LATER EDITIONS—SECOND PARTS Clarke to transcribe his copy of the first edition. This was done with great care, exactly as it was printed. In 1897 Mr. Butler Clarke printed 250 copies at Oxford, with a facsimile of the old title-page. Many other editions followed the first of I554-1 In Mr. Grenville's library there is an value of Antwerp edition (i2mo) of 1555, copies. for which he paid seven guineas. Colonel Stanley's copy fetched £31 : Ids. ; Mr. Hanroth's, £20 : xos. The Paris editor of 1827 could only find a 1595 edition. A second part, by some wretched scribbler, soon appeared, without any merit. It makes spurious Lazarillo go to sea in the Algiers second pam. expedition of 1541. The ship founders, he sinks to the bottom, crawls into a cave, and is turned into a tunny fish. He is then caught i...« less