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Booka Audiobooks brings you, for the first time in English and accompanied by an original music score, The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes. This is the book that founded a literary genre during the Spanish Golden Age: the picaresque novel. Lazarillo is a boy of humble origins. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take Lazarillo on as his apprentice. Little Lazaro develops his cunning while serving the blind beggar and several other masters.

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This 1908 translation holds up in every respect but the introduction: a wearisome and inaccurate genealogy of Spaniards made entertaining only by the narrator's charming Castilian lisp. Skip through that, and the story is rich, entertaining and pleasantly brief.

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