Download or read book The Mangy Parrot, Abridged written by Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.