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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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Gipsies seem to have been born into the world for the sole purpose of being thieves: they are born of thieving parents, they are brought up with thieves, they study in order to be thieves, and they end up as past masters in the art of thieving. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Juan, Andrés Caballero, Doña Estefanía, Scipio That, Wise Dog, Don Lope, Doña Clara, Doña Clementa, Doña Estefania, Doña Guiomar, Licenciate Glass, Peña de Francia, Don Francisco de Cárcamo, Licenciate Peralta, Nicholas the Flat-nosed, San Salvador Square, Scipio Look, Thomas Rodaja New!
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Gipsies seem to have been born into the world for the sole purpose of being thieves: they are born of thieving parents, they are brought up with thieves, they study in order to be thieves, and they end up as past masters in the art of thieving. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Juan, Andrés Caballero, Doña Estefanía, Scipio That, Wise Dog, Don Lope, Doña Clara, Doña Clementa, Doña Estefania, Doña Guiomar, Licenciate Glass, Peña de Francia, Don Francisco de Cárcamo, Licenciate Peralta, Nicholas the Flat-nosed, San Salvador Square, Scipio Look, Thomas Rodaja New!
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- Don Quixote (AKA Don Quixote de la Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes on 9 pages
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on 9 pages
- Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes on 9 pages
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes on 9 pages
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra on 9 pages
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