A picaresque chronicle of a Spanish youth's rise and fall through servants' halls, robbers' dens, and royal courts.
Books that mention Gil Blas (9)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “A romance on the plan of Gil Blas, adapted to American society and manners, would cease to be a romance.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “When you read the story of the Archbishop and Gil Blas, you may laugh, if you will, at the poor old man's delusion; but don't forget that the youth was the greater fool of the two, and that his master served such a booby rightly in turning him out of doors.”
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo: “at the head of his edition of Gil Blas”
White-Jacket by Herman Melville: “For this purpose, Peregrine Pickle is a good book; so is Gil Blas; so is Goldsmith.”
The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich: “In a lidless trunk in the garret I subsequently unearthed another motley collection of novels and romances, embracing the adventures of Baron Trenck, Jack Sheppard, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Charlotte Temple--all of which I fed upon like a bookworm.”
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino: “there he was reading Lesage's Gil Blas, holding his book in one hand and his gun in the other.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “a vast range of allusions to contemporary texts from Lesage's picaresque novel Gil Blas to Richardson's Clarissa”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “…traps for diversion at his neighbour's expense, laid hold on the declaration; and, recollecting the story of Scipio and the muleteer in Gil Blas, resolved to perpetrate a joke upon the stomach of Pallet, which seemed well disposed to a hearty supper.”