Lázaro, son of a miller from the banks of the Tormes, is handed to a cunning blind beggar and learns to survive by tricks. He passes through the service of a miserly priest, a hungry squire too proud to admit he has no food, a friar, a pardoner and others. Clements Markham’s translation adds an account of the Mendoza family and their claim to the anonymous work.
The short Spanish novel of 1554 that founded the picaresque tradition behind Don Quixote and Gil Blas. Download the free EPUB.