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  • Essential Novelists - Alain-René Lesage

    european picaresque

    by Alain-René Lesage, August Nemo ...
    Series Book 97 - Essential Novelists
    Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Alain-René Lesage which are The Devil on Two Sticks and The Adventures of Gil Blas. The French novelist and playwright Alain-René Lesage created a vision of his transitional epoch as ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, The

    by Alain Lesage ...
    Narrated by Locke ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 28 min

    Discover The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, a timeless classic of French literature filled with adventure, humor, romance, and sharp social satire. Follow Gil Blas, a young man who leaves home to seek his fortune and encounters a fascinating world of nobles, servants, swindlers, clergy, and ambitious individuals. Through unexpected twists, personal struggles, and remarkable encounters, he ... Read more

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  • Gil Blas

    by Alain-René Lesage ...
    Gil Blas isn't the first picaresque novel, but it's one of the genre's most famous examples; it's a novel that at one point in history was on the bookshelf of every good reader, and it has been featured in allusions across literature for centuries after its publication between 1715 and 1735.Gil Blas is the name of a Spanish boy born to a poor stablehand and a chambermaid. He's educated by his ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Delphi Classics)

    by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 2 - Delphi Series Five
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    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ...
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