{"product_id":"2940015689501","title":"Tales of Count Lucanor","description":"Don Juan Manuel's Tales of Count Lucanor, in Spanish Libro de los ejemplos del conde Lucanor y de Patronio (\"Book of the Examples of Count Lucanor and of Patronio\"), also commonly known as El Conde Lucanor or Libro de los ejemplos (original Old Castilian: Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor et de Patronio), is one of the earliest works of prose in Castilian Spanish. It was first published in 1335.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is divided into four parts. The first and most well-known part is a series of 50 short stories (some no more than a page or two) drawn from various sources, such as Aesop and other classical writers, and Arabic folk tales. Story 28, \"Of what happened to a woman called Truhana\", a version of Aesop's The Milkmaid and Her Pail, was claimed by Max Müller to originate in the Hindu cycle Panchatantra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales of Count Lucanor was first printed in 1575 when it was published at Seville under the auspices of Argote de Molina. It was again printed at Madrid in 1642, after which it lay forgotten for nearly two centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA didactic, moralistic purpose, which would color so much of the Spanish literature to follow (see Novela picaresca), is the mark of this book. Count Lucanor engages in conversation with his advisor Patronio, putting to him a problem (\"Some man has made me a proposition...\" or \"I fear that such and such person intends to...\") and asking for advice. Patronio responds always with the greatest humility, claiming not to wish to offer advice to so illustrious a person as the Count, but offering to tell him a story of which the Count's problem reminds him. (Thus, the stories are \"examples\" [ejemplos] of wise action.) At the end he advises the Count to do as the protagonist of his story did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter ends in more or less the same way, with slight variations on: \"And this pleased the Count greatly and he did just so, and found it well. And Don Johán (Juan) saw that this example was very good, and had it written in this book, and composed the following verses.\" A rhymed couplet closes, giving the moral of the story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTale 44, \"Of what happened to a young Man on his Wedding Day\" has the basic elements of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTale 7, \"Of that which happened to a King and three Impostors\" tells the story that Hans Christian Andersen made popular as The Emperor's New Clothes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTale 23, \"What happened to a good Man and his Son, Leading a Beast to Market\" is the familiar fable The Miller, His Son and the Donkey.","brand":"Balefire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074248622320,"sku":"2940015689501","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015689501_p0.jpg?v=1763631415","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015689501","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}