01977cam a22003853u 4500 46125 UtSlPG 20260610134047.0 m cr n 260607r2014||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 09001819 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645 Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2014 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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) "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.) Original publication data not identified Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Spain -- Fiction Picaresque literature, Spanish Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Watts, Henry Edward, 1826-1904 Vierge, Daniel, 1851-1904 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46125 86964 86964