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EXEMPLARY STORIES
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By: |
Miguel Cervantes, C. A. Jones (Trans) |
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ISBN 10: |
0140442480 |
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9780140442489 |
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PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
28 November, 1985 |
Pages: |
256 |
Translated from: |
Spanish |
Description: |
Composed throughout Cervantes's writing life and mentioned in "Don Quixote", his Spanish stories range from traditional tales of love to incisive moral fables. The stories featured include: "The Little Gipsy Girl"; "Rinconete and Cortadillo"; "The Glass Graduate"; "The Jealous Extremaduran"; "The Deceitful Marriage"; and "The Dogs' Colloquy". |
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Composed throughout Cervantes's writing life and mentioned in Don Quixote, his Exemplary Stories are among the first and finest Spanish short stories: ranging from traditional tales of love to incisive moral fables. In The Little Gipsy Girl, an Italianate romance, the nomadic life is idealised through a love affair between the beautiful Preciosa and a nobleman who agrees to live as a gipsy to win her heart. Elsewhere, the intricacies of love are further explored in tales such as The Jealous Extremaduran, while the picaresque Rinconette and Cortadillo, depicting the friendship between a card-sharper and a pickpocket, presents a very different insight into the lower classes of seventeenth-century Spain. Widely regarded as one of Cervantes's greatest stories, The Dogs' Colloquy brilliantly captures Spanish conversation and society in its depiction of a discussion between two dogs mysteriously granted the gift of speech. |
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UK |
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Penguin Classics |
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