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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki (Paperback, 1996)

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Title: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin Classics). Publisher : Penguin Classics Revised ed edition (7 Mar 1996). Paperback : 656 pages. Order Processing & Cancellation. This book is unused, unread, and in perfect condition.

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Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.