Exemplary novels : the first short stories in Spanish literature.

Cervantes has been considered as the inventor of the genre and of the word "novel", which our universal author took from Italian. His exemplary novels may be a good way to start getting acquainted with this great writer. This edition features all of the short novels he wrote and the accompanying author's foreword. In each of them, the rogues, freedom, the desire for adventure, deception and disappointment constitute the poetic truth of an exemplary reading.
They include: La Gitanilla , The liberal lover, Rinconete and Cortadillo, The English Spaniard, The Licentiate Stained Glass, The Force of Blood, The Jealous Shiver , The illustrious mop, The two maidens, Mrs. Cornelia, The deceptive marriage, Colloquium of the dogs and The fake aunt.