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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Exemplary Stories
• Author: Miguel De Cervantes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780140442489
• ISBN: 0140442480
• ID: 04024287
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 194 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 128 × 15 mm

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