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The archetype of the appealing anti-hero is encapsulated in the character Gil Blas, the star of Alain-René Lesage's 18th-century picaresque novel. Lesage's work was influenced by the story Lazarillo de Tormes, a Spanish novella published anonymously in 1554. The cover of an 1846 double publication of those works is reproduced here in the 2027 Picaresque Maxi 18-Month Hardcover Dayplanner (Elastic...