Eight Interludes (Everyman's Library)

These Interludes, played between the acts of full-length plays, offer keyhole glimpses of a world far removed from courtly elegance or military heroism, populated by characters cut from the underside of seventeenth century Madrid, that Babylon of opportunists and deceivers. Cervantes has created brilliant vignettes in which a remarkable likeness of Don Quixote can be seen.