Reviews for Exemplary Novels (AKA Exemplary Stories)

The average rating for Exemplary Novels (AKA Exemplary Stories) based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-23 00:00:00 Styliani Vlachaki Acknowledgements Introduction & Suggestions for Further Reading --The Little Gipsy Girl --Rinconete and Cortadillo --The Glass Graduate --The Jealous Extremaduran --The Deceitful Marriage --The Dogs' Colloquy

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-26 00:00:00 James Steel Exemplary Stories is an excellent collection of novellas written by a legendary author Cervantes. Many novellas follow adventures of nobleman, often featuring a Cinderella moment. Similar to his famous novel, these prose works often feature brilliant social satire, excellent syntax, wonderful humour and word play. For today standard they might seem a bit old-fashioned to a modern reader, but at the time of the publications some of them were absolutely revolutionary. Some of these novellas are more idolized and fantastical (resembling fairy-tales and romantic stories), while others are more realistic, but all of them show the writer's skill. Even in more fantastic novellas, you can feel the writer's wit and subtle irony. Excellent writing! Cervantes was a genius, but we all not that, right? Anything written by him is gold. Discovering a vintage edition of this book in my home made my day. Reading it, made my week. Consulting the internet, I realized that the vintage edition I have doesn't contain all the novellas, but since they are available online, I won't have issues finding the remaining ones. I think some of them already appeared in his novel, so maybe that is why they were not included in this edition of mine? I'll have to have a look online and make sure I didn't miss any prose work of his.