The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous
"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.)
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| Author | Anonymous |
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| Translator | Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916 |
| Title |
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes 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 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarillo_de_Tormes |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Josep Cols Canals, Ramon Pajares Box, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Spanish fiction -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Picaresque fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 53489 |
| Release Date | Nov 10, 2016 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 13, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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