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  Gil Blas

  Alain-René Lesage

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  • 137 parts

  A creeping fog of disillusionment clings to every cobbled street, every tavern brawl, every shadowed doorway in Lesage’s Spain. Gil Blas is ...

  • 18Th Century
  • Enlightenment
  • French Literature
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  Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper

  Francisco de Quevedo

  • 335
  • 26 parts

  A miasma of shadowed alleys clings to Pablo de Segovia, a man forged in the crucible of Old Madrid’s deceit. Quevedo paints not a chronicle ...

  • 17Th Century
  • Baroque
  • Picaresque