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The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain René Lesage

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The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain René Lesage is a lively picaresque novel about ambition, survival, luck, and the many strange turns of fortune in early eighteenth-century Spain.The story follows Gil Blas, a young man who leaves home to seek his future. Along the way, he is robbed, deceived, employed by a succession of masters, drawn into dangerous situations, and introduced to people from every level of society—from servants and adventurers to doctors, nobles, criminals, and politicians.Gil Blas gradually learns how the world really works. His experiences teach him about greed, hypocrisy, vanity, friendship, loy...

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  1. Book XII, Chapter XIV

    8 min

  2. Book XII, Chapter XIII

    8 min

  3. Book XII, Chapter XII

    6 min

  4. Book XII, Chapter XI

    6 min

  5. Book XII, Chapter X

    6 min

  6. Book XII, Chapter IX

    5 min

  7. Book XII, Chapter VIII

    5 min

  8. Book XII, Chapter VII

    6 min

  9. Book XII, Chapter VI

    7 min

  10. Book XII, Chapter V

    6 min

  11. Book XII, Chapter IV

    6 min

  12. Book XII, Chapter III

    10 min

  13. Book XII, Chapter II

    5 min

  14. Book XII, Chapter I

    16 min

  15. Book XI, Chapter XIV

    7 min

  16. Book XI, Chapter XIII

    15 min

  17. Book XI, Chapter XII

    9 min

  18. Book XI, Chapter XI

    6 min

  19. Book XI, Chapter X

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  20. Book XI, Chapter IX

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