Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper
Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645
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"Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper" by Francisco de Quevedo is a picaresque novel written around 1604 and published in 1626. This satirical tale follows Don Pablos, a swindler who sets out to learn virtue and become a gentleman—but fails miserably at both. Through Pablos's misadventures, Quevedo crafts a biting critique of Spanish society while punishing his protagonist for daring to rise above his lowborn station. Full of wordplay and caricature, the novel chronicles a cascade of linked calamities that ultimately drive Pablos to embrace the life of a rogue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
09001819
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Spain -- Fiction Picaresque literature, Spanish
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Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Busc%C3%B3n Release date is 2014-06-28
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
"Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper" by Francisco de Quevedo is a picaresque novel written around 1604 and published in 1626. This satirical tale follows Don Pablos, a swindler who sets out to learn virtue and become a gentleman—but fails miserably at both. Through Pablos's misadventures, Quevedo crafts a biting critique of Spanish society while punishing his protagonist for daring to rise above his lowborn station. Full of wordplay and caricature, the novel chronicles a cascade of linked calamities that ultimately drive Pablos to embrace the life of a rogue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
09001819
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Spain -- Fiction Picaresque literature, Spanish
PQ