This is the story of Miguel Santos, the alter ego of Gil Blas. He was not Casanova nor Don Juan but his many adventures with swindlers and bandits, and the many romantic entanglements of the hero should not be forgotten and shelf-bound by the archaic idiom of the Enlightenment Period. His story shocked that era's sensibilities--but in a genteel way. It might have been the "Lady Chatterly's Lover", the "Peyton Place" or "The Fifty Shades of Grey" of...