Description: THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES: His Fortunes and Adversities, translated by Harriet de Onis (1959, SC) VG Vintage softcover Book in Very Good Condition. Binding is tight and intact. Glossy cover is in very good condition, but has slightly yellowed, has minor corner bend and some minor creasing. Original price sticker on lower front cover. Pages have yellowed but are free of markings and dogears. Size: 5" x 7", 74 pages. Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with which it exposes human hypocrisy. The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters, each vividly sketched and together revealing the corrupt world of imperial Spain. Its miseries are made all the more apparent by the candor and surprising good cheer with which young Lazarillo recounts his ever more curious fate.
Price: 6.5 USD
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Book Title: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Original Language: Spanish
Item Length: 7 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1959
Type: Novel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Era: 1950s
Author: Unknown
Personalized: No
Genre: picaresque novel
Unit Quantity: 1
Topic: Social Sattire
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 5 in
Number of Pages: 74
