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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels - Anonymous, and Alpert, Michael (Introduction by), and Alpert, Michael (Notes by)
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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English ...

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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels 2003, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780140449006

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