Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels

by Anonymous, Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

Book Overview

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populated by unsavoury beggars, corrupt priests, eccentrics, whores and criminals. Both Lazarillo de Tormesand Pablos and the swindler are determined to attain the trappings of the gentleman, but have little time for the gentlemanly ideals of religion, justice, honour and nobility.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140449000
• ISBN13: 9780140449006
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher