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The Lying Soldier – Calleja Fantastic Tales Vol. 6, New English Translation, Illustrated Classic Spanish Folk Tale Paperback

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• New English translation with editorial context.

A discharged soldier has no money, but he has a story for every occasion—and no objection to making it up.

He turns stones into the promise of a meal, calls himself Nobody to trick a miser, and impersonates Mars in an increasingly audacious sequence of frauds. Yet even a practiced liar can meet someone who knows the game better.

Calleja's illustrated trickster tale delights in escalating schemes and reversals rather than an exemplary hero. This English edition includes the booklet's historical piece Canal Opened by Philadelphus, along with editorial context. Contains theft, assault, animal slaughter, religious impersonation, and coarse retaliation; it is not packaged as a young children's moral lesson.

This English reading edition includes a new translation of Calleja's Spanish text, illustrations presented through digital restoration and reconstruction, the original booklet's historical supplement, and editorial context. The illustrations are the original period artwork, carefully restored from scans of the antique book, with AI-assisted tools used to repair damage under hand editorial review. The stories are the original Calleja texts, newly translated into English. This is not a bilingual edition or an untouched facsimile.

The Lying Soldier, Calleja Fantastic Tales, Volume 6. By Editorial Saturnino Calleja; translated by Gregory Lindberg.

This is a new paperback edition, printed on demand by our production partner Amazon KDP and published by Plato Press. 6 x 9 in, 26 pages, black-and-white interior. Ships via USPS Media Mail.

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