TY - BOOK AU - Quevedo,Francisco de AU - Pennell,Joseph AU - Watts,Henry Edward AU - Vierge,Daniel TI - Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper AV - PQ PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction KW - Spain -- Fiction KW - Picaresque literature, Spanish N1 - 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); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46125 ER -