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When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don
Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is
clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the
fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits
turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are
transformed into the accoutrements of chivalry, peasant girls
become princesses and windmills are mistaken for formidable giants,
leading the hero and his squire Sancho Panza into the realms of
absurdity and humiliation. Renowned for its comical set pieces, Don
Quixote is a profound meditation on the relationship between truth
and fiction and the morality of deception, as well as the
foundation stone of the modern novel.
In a sleepy village, a retired gentleman is consumed with tales of
chivalry. Seeing no impediments, such as logic, propriety or
sanity, to fulfilling his dreams, this would-be hero reinvents
himself as the Knight-Errant, Don Quixote. He sets out across the
arid open country in search of adventures accompanied only his
dim-witted squire, Sancho Panza.
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Don Quixote Vol. Ii (Paperback)
Rob Davis; Originally written by Miguel De Cervantes
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The second volume of Don Quixote is much darker than the first,
picking up the story where Volume I left off and taking us to Don
Quixote's death. Don Quixote battles cats, puppets and the famous
Knight of the Mirrors. He plunges head first into the legendary
Cave of Montesinos and seeks to disenchant his imaginary truelove
Dulcinea del Toboso, who is imprisoned there. Meanwhile Sancho
Panza is finally given an island to rule over by the Duke and
Duchess who, like many characters Quixote and Sancho meet in Vol
II, have read Vol I. The Duke and Duchess play endless cruel tricks
on our heroes and slowly our heroes’ madness and foolishness
becomes painfully apparent. On his deathbed Quixote becomes Alonso
once more, he finally denies the existence of Giants, Knights,
Damsels and to Sancho’s horror he denies there ever was a Don
Quixote de la Mancha. Sancho begs that they should ride out one
more time, but it is too late Alonso Quixana is dead.
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Don Quixote (Hardcover, New Edition)
Miguel De Cervantes; Translated by J.M. Cohen; Introduction by Ned Halley
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Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Together they journey through sixteenth-century Spain in search of adventure, taking on spirits, evil enchanters and giants in a quest to perform acts of valour worthy of Dulcinea, his lady love.
A masterpiece of world fiction and a brilliant satire on traditional romances, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is not only the world’s first modern novel – it is also an uproarious comedy that continues to delight readers today.
This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Don Quixote is translated by the acclaimed J. M. Cohen and features an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
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Don Quixote (Paperback, Rev Ed)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; Translated by John Rutherford
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‘Didn’t I tell you they were only windmills? And only someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!’ Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote’s fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with. John Rutherford’s landmark translation does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes’s prose. His introduction discusses the traditional works parodied in Don Quixote, as well as issues surrounding literary translation. Voted greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes; Illustrated by Louis Zansky
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote (Paperback, New Ed)
Miguel De Cervantes; Translated by Edith Grossman
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM. Widely regarded as the
world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic
books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque
adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and
his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through
sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read
Don Quixote.
Best known today as the author of "Don Quixote"--one of the most
beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition--Miguel de
Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well.
After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his
theatrical career was interrupted by other literary efforts. Yet,
eager to prove himself as a playwright, shortly before his death he
published a collection of his later plays before they were ever
performed.With their depiction of captives in North Africa and at
the Ottoman court, two of these, "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The
Great Sultana," draw heavily on Cervantes's own experiences as a
captive, and echo important episodes in "Don Quixote." They are set
in a Mediterranean world where Spain and its Muslim neighbors
clashed repeatedly while still remaining in close contact, with
merchants, exiles, captives, soldiers, and renegades frequently
crossing between the two sides. The plays provide revealing
insights into Spain's complex perception of the world of
Mediterranean Islam.Despite their considerable literary and
historical interest, these two plays have never before been
translated into English. This edition presents them along with an
introductory essay that places them in the context of Cervantes's
drama, the early modern stage, and the political and cultural
relations between Christianity and Islam in the early modern
period.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful
translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine
English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised
by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's note. A
revised and expanded introduction as well as revised and expanded
explanatory footnotes by Diana de Armas Wilson. A rich selection of
contextual materials, including related writings by Cervantes and
his contemporaries as well as a modern account of Don Quijote's
influence over five centuries. Fifteen critical essays-seven of
them new to the Second Edition-thematically organised to maximise
classroom discussion. The new essays are by Ilan Stavans, Anne J.
Cruz, Paul Michael Johnson, Pablo Garcia-Pin~ar, Anthony J.
Cascardi, Barbara Fuchs and Andres Lema-Hincapie. A chronology and
a selected bibliography.
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Don Quixote Of La Mancha (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes; Introduction by Ilan Stevens; Translated by John Ormsby
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes; Contributions by Mint Editions
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"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature,
a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live
through his sheer vitality...The parody has become a
paragon."-Vladimir Nabokov "A more profound and powerful work than
this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of
the human mind."- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Miguel de Cervantes' Don
Quixote is regarded not only as the first modern novel, but also as
one of the most important works of fiction ever produced. The
subtle and hopeful irony, resplendent variety of characters and its
thoroughly entertaining sense of adventure and friendship has
dazzled readers for more than four hundred years. It was published
in Spain in two volumes, first in 1605 then followed by the second
in 1615. Cervantes' use of realism and everyday language in Don
Quixote was revolutionary at the time, and its influence on the
development of literature may only be surpassed by the work of
Shakespeare. In the opening of this extraordinary book, Alonso
Quijano, a noble living in sixteenth-century Spain, has become
consumed with the act of reading, and subsequently assumes the
identity of the chivalrous knights that he loves to read about.
Transformed into Don Quixote, he embarks on his first ill-fated
journey as a "knight". The defeated Quixote returns home, to only
prepare himself better for the next adventure of delusion. On his
second journey Quixote has enlisted the peasant Sancho Panza to
appropriate the role of his squire. Although the duo is
ridiculously mismatched in every sense, their inextricable bond is
one of the most fascinating of friendships ever created on paper.
Between their disordered adventures -of battling windmills and
herds of sheep and endless mishaps- are the stories of those who
are encountered on the journey. The book eventually becomes a hall
of mirrors, and Cervantes explores preconceptions of narrative,
reliability, and morality that are strikingly modern. Ultimately,
Quixote's preposterous fantasies become haunting as the reader of
this book will surely begin to question what is real and what is
not. The story of Don Quixote has been adapted into numerous forms,
including opera, musicals, ballets, music and film. With an
eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this
edition of Don Quixote is both modern and readable.
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. This Penguin Classics edition, with its beautiful new cover design, includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá.
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes; Translated by Edith Grossman; Introduction by Harold Bloom
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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish
masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic
books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the
self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his
faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through
sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in
English until you've read this masterful translation.This P.S.
edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book,
including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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Viaje del Parnaso
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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La Galatea (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes; Translated by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll
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Considered by many as the greatest of all Spanish authors, Miguel
de Cervantes is most well-known of course for "Don Quixote," a work
of such literary impact that its historical importance cannot be
understated. Unfortunately Cervantes' other works are often
overlooked and characterized as inferior to his masterpiece. While
his other writings never gained the popularity of "Don Quixote," he
did author several other works that are worthy of consideration.
Amongst these is the pastoral romance "La Galatea." First published
in 1585, it is the story of Elicio and Erastro, best friends who
are enamored with Galatea. Along with their friend Floria, the four
of them travel to the wedding of Daranio and Silveri. Along the way
they meet numerous other characters, who their own tell stories, as
they continue on their journey to the wedding. Interspersed within
the prose is a rich collection of poems that would inform the
lyrical direction in which Cervantes would go for the rest of his
career.
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra; Translated by Tom Lathrop
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Complete and unabridged, "Don Quixote" is the epic tale of the man
from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their
picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain
form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.
In a new translation that "comes closest, among the modern
translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that
characterizes Cervantes' narrative,"* "Don Quixote" is a novel that
is both immortal satire of an outdated chivalric code and a biting
portrayal of an age in which nobility was a form of madness.
*John J. Allen, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, University of
Kentucky and Past President of the Cervantes Society of
America
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El Rufián Dichoso
Miguel De Cervantes
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Don Quixote (Hardcover)
Miguel De Cervantes; Contributions by Mint Editions
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"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature,
a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live
through his sheer vitality...The parody has become a
paragon."-Vladimir Nabokov "A more profound and powerful work than
this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of
the human mind."- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Miguel de Cervantes' Don
Quixote is regarded not only as the first modern novel, but also as
one of the most important works of fiction ever produced. The
subtle and hopeful irony, resplendent variety of characters and its
thoroughly entertaining sense of adventure and friendship has
dazzled readers for more than four hundred years. It was published
in Spain in two volumes, first in 1605 then followed by the second
in 1615. Cervantes' use of realism and everyday language in Don
Quixote was revolutionary at the time, and its influence on the
development of literature may only be surpassed by the work of
Shakespeare. In the opening of this extraordinary book, Alonso
Quijano, a noble living in sixteenth-century Spain, has become
consumed with the act of reading, and subsequently assumes the
identity of the chivalrous knights that he loves to read about.
Transformed into Don Quixote, he embarks on his first ill-fated
journey as a "knight". The defeated Quixote returns home, to only
prepare himself better for the next adventure of delusion. On his
second journey Quixote has enlisted the peasant Sancho Panza to
appropriate the role of his squire. Although the duo is
ridiculously mismatched in every sense, their inextricable bond is
one of the most fascinating of friendships ever created on paper.
Between their disordered adventures -of battling windmills and
herds of sheep and endless mishaps- are the stories of those who
are encountered on the journey. The book eventually becomes a hall
of mirrors, and Cervantes explores preconceptions of narrative,
reliability, and morality that are strikingly modern. Ultimately,
Quixote's preposterous fantasies become haunting as the reader of
this book will surely begin to question what is real and what is
not. The story of Don Quixote has been adapted into numerous forms,
including opera, musicals, ballets, music and film. With an
eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this
edition of Don Quixote is both modern and readable.
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Exemplary Stories (Paperback)
Miguel De Cervantes; Contributions by Mint Editions
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With stories about love, culture, adventure, religious differences
and shocking endings, Exemplary Stories features dynamic
protagonists and challenges tradition. Featuring twelve novellas,
Exemplary Stories features a diverse array of protagonists,
accompanied by captivating prose. Among this collection of short
fiction is The Little Gypsy Girl, a story about a wise, talented
and beautiful young woman who requires her noble suitor to leave
his old life behind and become a gypsy in order to win her hand in
marriage. Using irony to expose the social contrasts in a rich
city, Rinconte and Cortadillo features two thieves that travel to a
new town with intentions to join a guild of criminals. The Liberal
Lover depicts a couple who take each other for granted. During the
downfall of their relationship, a tragic event separates the two,
causing them to reconsider the way they treat each other. Inviting
discussion on the pivotal role mental health plays in daily life,
The Lawyer of Glass depicts a handsome young man named Thomas, who
is well-known for his intelligence. Enamored by Thomas, a local
woman brews a love potion and gets Thomas to drink it,
unintentionally poisoning him. Though he is able to physically
recover, Thomas is convinced that he is made of glass, changing him
in a way the woman never intended to. Exemplary Stories features
twelve of Miquel de Cervantes' exceptional works of short fiction,
each crafted with enthralling prose and thought-provoking plot that
cater to curiosity and a sense of adventure. With an aesthetically
pleasing approach, Cervantes crafted this collection to address
social and moral issues. Since its publication in 1613, Exemplary
Stories has inspired dramatic adaptations, and have inspired many
writers. With shocking endings, complex conflicts, and adventurous
settings, Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes continues to
surprise and delight readers even four-hundred years later. This
edition of Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes features twelve
works of short fiction and has been redesigned with the modern
reader in mind. With an eye-catching cover and an easy-to-read
font, the excellence and awe of Exemplary Stories reaches the
contemporary audience with ease.
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