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Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) blend picaresque narrative, comic irony, moral ambiguity, and sheer mirth. A nobleman undergoes a change of identity to prove his love for a mere gypsy girl; two young delinquents discover a guild of criminals which models itself on a religious brotherhood; a jealous old man imprisons his child-bride in a house which conjures up both convent and seraglio; a law graduate goes mad and believes he is made of glass, and most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize on the foibles of human society in a ward full…
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99 editions · 2 languages- Paperback · English · 2018The Exemplary Novels of CervantesCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 476 pages · 9781986593052
- Paperback · English · 2018Exemplary NovelsYale University Press · 448 pages · 9780300230536
- Paperback · English · 2007The Exemplary Novels of CervantesEcho Library · 328 pages · 9781406844542
- Hardcover · English · 2007The Exemplary Novels Of Miguel De Cervantes SaavedraKessinger Publishing, LLC · 496 pages · 9780548165577
- Paperback · English · 2007The Exemplary Novels of CervantesIndyPublish · 396 pages · 9781428077744
- Paperback · English · 2007The Exemplary Novels of CervantesBiblioBazaar · 496 pages · 9781426480539
ReadersSpanish languageSpanish fictionSocial life and customsFictionSpanish Short storiesTranslations into FrenchFiction, short stories (single author)