The His Fortunes & Adversities; with a Notice of the Mendoza Family, a Short Life of the Author, Don Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, a Notice of the Work, and Some Remarks on the Character of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous creator Markham, Clements R., Sir (Clements Robert) 1830-1916 text utu 2016 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes" by Anonymous is a Spanish novella published anonymously in 1554. This groundbreaking work follows young Lázaro, a boy from humble origins who becomes apprentice to a cunning blind beggar and serves various masters across Spanish society. Through his adventures, Lázaro learns survival and deception while exposing the hypocrisy of church officials and social injustice. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition for its anticlerical content, this tale of a resourceful rogue established the picaresque novel genre and influenced centuries of literature featuring roguish heroes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarillo_de_Tormes Release date is 2016-11-10 E-text prepared by Josep Cols Canals, Ramon Pajares Box, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Original publication data not identified Spanish fiction -- Translations into English Picaresque fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://archive.org/details/lifeoflazarillod00markiala https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53489 https://archive.org/details/lifeoflazarillod00markiala https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53489 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134231.0 53489