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Exemplary Novels: read in Spanish (C2)

Read Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares in the original Spanish: the complete 1613 collection of twelve novellas, level C2, with word translation.

Novelas ejemplares (Miguel de Cervantes)

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Level C2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Long periods of Golden Age prose, old forms such as vuesa merced and the spelling of the 1883 edition, vocabulary of rogues, inns and courtship, and the narrative devices of the first Spanish novellas

This article contains the complete text of Miguel de Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares (1613), twelve novellas with the author’s own prologue, in the 1883 edition printed in Leipzig by F. A. Brockhaus. Level C2 suits experienced readers: sentences of about 49 words, old spelling and 17th-century vocabulary. You will meet gypsies, rogues, a man of glass and two talking dogs, and learn the language of the Spanish Golden Age.

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