NAVARRO, ROSA / NAVARRO DURAN, ROSA
The Exemplary Novels (Spanish: Novelas ejemplares) are a series ofshort stories by Miguel de Cervantes. Written between 1590 and 1612,the collection was published in Madrid in 1613 by Juan de la Cuesta,and received well in the wake of the first part of Don Quixote. Theseare twelve short novels that follow the model established in Italy.Although they are actually long short stories, they are termed novelsby Cervantes. Cervantes boasted in his foreword to have been the first to write novels in the Spanish language:
