Journal Entry 1 by potok-fan from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Monday, October 19, 2009

Doing a blitz on registering so that I've got more books for people to choose from for ghir's birthday rabck! I'll set this one to AVL straightaway.

from amazon: The advantages of fabular or allegorical teaching are too we understood to need any comment. Don Manuel, however, enjoys the distinction of being free from the cynicism and covert sarcasm which mar the instructiveness of too many writers of this class. He has been able to paint vice and folly in their true colours, without degrading human nature to point a clever epigram. For that satire only is wise and good which has in it an undercurrent of tenderness and pity for those foibles which the satirist himself shares, more or less, with his fellowmen. We trust that Count Lucanor may be accepted by the English reader as a genuine, if rugged piece of ore from that rich mine of early Spanish literature which yet lies hidden and unwrought.

different cover art - the registered version is in Spanish