Le Sage, Alain René
"Historia de Gil Blas de Santillana: Novela (Vol 1 de 3)" by Alain René Le Sage is a picaresque novel published between 1715 and 1735. Born into poverty, Gil Blas leaves home at seventeen for university but soon finds himself forced to help robbers. Working as a valet, he navigates different social classes through wit and adaptability, encountering thieves, questionable women, false scholars, and dangerous doctors. His journey takes him from misfortune to the royal court, where cunning and intelligence become his greatest assets. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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