# Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper

By Francisco de Quevedo.

"Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper" by Francisco de Quevedo is a picaresque novel written around 1604 and published in 1626. This satirical tale follows Don Pablos, a swindler who sets out to learn virtue and become a gentleman—but fails miserably at both. Through Pablos's misadventures, Quevedo crafts a biting critique of Spanish society while punishing his protagonist for daring to rise above his lowborn station. Full of wordplay and caricature, the novel chronicles a cascade of linked calamities that ultimately drive Pablos to embrace the life of a rogue. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Commentator: Joseph Pennell
- Editor: Henry Edward Watts
- Illustrator: Daniel Vierge
- Subjects: Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Spain -- Fiction; Picaresque literature, Spanish

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