Exemplary stories

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Translated by Lesley Lipson earliest edition we have, 1972 Oxford University Press, 2008 paperback 317 pages

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Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) blend picaresque narrative, comic irony, moral ambiguity, and sheer mirth. A nobleman undergoes a change of identity to prove his love for a mere gypsy girl; two young delinquents discover a guild of criminals which models itself on a religious brotherhood; a jealous old man imprisons his child-bride in a house which conjures up bot...

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Lesley Lipson 1 printing we hold · 2008 · Oxford University Press

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Exemplary stories paperback · 2008 · Oxford University Press · 317 pages · 9780199555000
Exemplary stories edition · 1972 · Penguin · 252 pages

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