by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Espasa-Calpe. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423925889
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«La gitanilla: La ilustre fregona» is the volume with two exemplary novels by Miguel de Cervantes, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (164 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together two exemplary novels by Cervantes. In «La gitanilla», a young gypsy girl named Preciosa, famous for her beauty, intelligence and gifts for singing and dancing, stars in a story of love, identity and virtue with an idealized view of gypsy life. The volume is completed with «La ilustre fregona».
Both novels are part of the Exemplary Novels, originally published in 1613. This edition belongs to the Clásicos Breves collection from Espasa-Calpe.
For students and readers who want to approach Cervantes's short fiction through two of his exemplary novels.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature".
