Literature of the world : an introductory study . oted himself to lit-erature. His pastoral ro-mance Galatea and thetwenty or thirty playswritten in the next threeyears brought him smallrenown and less the meantime he hadmarried, and in 1587 orthereabouts he settled inSeville. Here we find himin the office of deputypurveyor to the SpanishArmada, a curious con-nection with the Europeanaffairs of those stirringdays. Later he was madecollector of revenues. In this capacity he suffered misfortune and for a brief period wasthrown into prison, where, as we gather from his own words, he be-g
Literature of the world : an introductory study . oted himself to lit-erature. His pastoral ro-mance Galatea and thetwenty or thirty playswritten in the next threeyears brought him smallrenown and less the meantime he hadmarried, and in 1587 orthereabouts he settled inSeville. Here we find himin the office of deputypurveyor to the SpanishArmada, a curious con-nection with the Europeanaffairs of those stirringdays. Later he was madecollector of revenues. In this capacity he suffered misfortune and for a brief period wasthrown into prison, where, as we gather from his own words, he be-gan his Don Quixote. Subsequently his entire living was made byhis pen. When the first part of Don Quixote appeared, in 1605,Cervantes and his family were living in a very modest two-roomestablishment at Valladolid. The success of the work was such thatfive editions were called for within a year. Although Cervanteschief ambitions were in the field of the drama, it was natural forhim to plan a second part of J?is famous tale; but he worked at this. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES i82 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD only in a desultory way, and perhaps never would have finished itif he had not been spurred on by the appearance of a spurious vol-ume pretending to be a continuation of Don Quixote. Indignantat this deception Cervantes promptly finished his authentic SecondPart, and this appeared in 1615, only a short time before his the last ten years of his life he and his family had lived atMadrid in humble circumstances. Facing cruel discouragementsand disappointments that would have broken many a man, Cer-vantes possessed throughout his career an indomitable and cheerfulspirit. His writings include poems, a long series of plays, and avolume of tales entitled Novelas Exemplares (1613). The last-named collection deals with the lives of rogues and vagabondsand hence belongs to picaresque literature. Cervantes purpose inNovelas Exemplares was simply to tell a tale in an artistic andpictures
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