Alain-René Lesage & August Nemo 
Essential Novelists – Alain-René Lesage 
european picaresque

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Alain-René Lesage which are The Devil on Two Sticks and The Adventures of Gil Blas.
The French novelist and playwright Alain-René Lesage created a vision of his transitional epoch as rich in good humor as in moral failings.
Novels selected for this book:

– The Devil on Two Sticks
– The Adventures of Gil Blas This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Alain-René Lesage, Lesage also spelled Le Sage, (born May 6, 1668, Sarzeau, Francedied Nov. 17, 1747, Boulogne), prolific French satirical dramatist and author of the classic picaresque novel Gil Blas, which was influential in making the picaresque form a European literary fashion.