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Don Quixote (Hardcover)
Miguel Cervantes; Translated by John Rutherford
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these
delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality,
colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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, tilting at windmills, fighting with friars, and
distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of
impenetrable fortresses and wicked sorcerers. 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.
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Don Quixote (Paperback)
Miguel Cervantes; Translated by P. A. Motteaux; Introduction by Stephen Boyd; Notes by Stephen Boyd; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by
Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the
deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and
battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams,
Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and
inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and
Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire,
Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even
computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular
escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this
precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a
sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.
On his 'heroic' journey Don Quixote meets characters of every class
and condition, from the prostitute Maritornes, who is commended for
her Christian charity, to the Knight of the Green Coat, who seems
to embody some of the constraints of virtue. Cervantes' greatest
work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle
irony that reaches out to encompass the reader, and does not leave
the author outside its circle. Peter Motteux's fine
eighteenth-century translation, acknowledged as one of the best,
brilliantly succeeds in communicating the spirit of the original
Spanish.
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The Gallant Spaniard
Philip E. Krummrich; Miguel Cervantes
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There are surprising omissions in the translated body of Spanish
Golden Age literature, including in the body of work by Miguel de
Cervantes. We have many highly competent translations of Don
Quixote, but until now not a single English version of his play The
Gallant Spaniard. Although Cervantes’s dramatic works have always
attracted less attention than his narrative fiction, there has been
significant critical interest in this play in recent years, do in
no small part to its unique portrayal of Christian-Muslim
relations. Critics have argued persuasively of the value of The
Gallant Spaniard in the service of a more general
understanding of Cervantes in his last years, specifically on his
views of this dichotomy. This edition, translated by Phillip
Krummrich, consists of a critical introduction and a full verse
translation of the play with notes.
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Maria 2022
Miguel Cervantes
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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