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Exemplary Stories

Miguel de Cervantes

Form
Form Short Story Collection
Year
Year 1613
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 350

A woman who wants a young scholar and cannot have him has a quince doctored with a love charm. He eats it, nearly dies, and comes back convinced his whole body is made of glass: he walks down the middle of the road, sleeps in straw, begs strangers not to touch him, and, having nothing left to lose, tells the exact truth about every fool who comes to gawp at him.

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Exemplary Stories, Miguel de Cervantes

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