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Auténtica obra maestra.
What better way to follow a weighty picaresque novel that was incredibly influential with a very light one that is credited with inventing the genre itself. Someone, and we have no idea who, managed with less than 100 pages, to define a genre that even a genius like Henry Fielding could do no more than emulate with 1,000 exactly 200 years later. Brilliant.
This is a great read as long as you stop at the end of the first of any edition that might have later added portions appended to it. I started ...more
This is a great read as long as you stop at the end of the first of any edition that might have later added portions appended to it. I started ...more
