Traces the life of the romantic adventurer from his secret childhood in a convent, to his escapades as a libertine, to his unavoidable fall into chaotic love, in a tale set against a backdrop of the Spanish Golden Age. A first novel. Reprint.
Traces the life of the romantic adventurer from his secret childhood in a convent, to his escapades as a libertine, to his unavoidable fall into chaotic love, in a tale set against a backdrop of the Spanish Golden Age.
Don Juan, an orphan left on the steps of a convent, grew up within the church, but his ambitions towards the priesthood fall to the wayside when he seduces a young nun.
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