Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo
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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.)
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| Author | Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645 |
|---|---|
| Commentator | Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 |
| Editor | Watts, Henry Edward, 1826-1904 |
| Illustrator | Vierge, Daniel, 1851-1904 |
| LoC No. | 09001819 |
| Title | Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Busc%C3%B3n |
| Credits |
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction |
| Subject | Spain -- Fiction |
| Subject | Picaresque literature, Spanish |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 46125 |
| Release Date | Jun 28, 2014 |
| Last Update | Nov 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 839 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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