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The Swindler
Francisco de Quevedo

The Swindler details the life of a boy named Don Pablos (though he takes on various other names throughout the course of the novel) as he struggles to become a gentleman, despite his low birth (his father is a thief, and his mother a witch [and it's intimated that they're Jewish, which, at the time, was "bad" [history and its racism!])…