Cervantes: Exemplary Stories (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140442480 ISBN 13: 9780140442489

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1986

Synopsis

Composed throughout Cervantes's writing life and mentioned in Don Quixote, his Exemplary Stories are among the first and finest Spanish short stories: ranging from traditional tales of love to incisive moral fables. In The Little Gipsy Girl, an Italianate romance, the nomadic life is idealised through a love affair between the beautiful Preciosa and a nobleman who agrees to live as a gipsy to win her heart. Elsewhere, the intricacies of love are further explored in tales such as The Jealous Extremaduran, while the picaresque Rinconette and Cortadillo, depicting the friendship between a card-sharper and a pickpocket, presents a very different insight into the lower classes of seventeenth-century Spain. Widely regarded as one of Cervantes's greatest stories, The Dogs' Colloquy brilliantly captures Spanish conversation and society in its depiction of a discussion between two dogs mysteriously granted the gift of speech.

About this title

About the Author:

Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda's (1547-1616) life was occupied with a struggle to earn a livelihood from literature and humble government employment. As well as Don Quixote, he wrote a number of plays and a collection of highly accomplished short stories, Exemplary Tales (1613). Translated with an introduction by C. A. Jones

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140442480
• ISBN 13: 9780140442489
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256