The Mangy Parrot, Abridged: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

Hackett Publishing Company, 2005 - Fiction - 228 pages

David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.

About the author

David Frye is Program Associate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

Nancy Vogeley is Professor Emerita of Modern Languages, University of San Francisco.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mangy Parrot, Abridged: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children; Hackett Classics Series
• Author: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
• Editor: David L. Frye
• Translated by: David L. Frye, Nancy Vogeley
• Contributor: Nancy Vogeley
• Edition: abridged
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, 2005
• ISBN: 087220670X, 9780872206700
• Length: 228 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General