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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
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are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
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++++British LibraryT090546With an additional title page, engraved,
and dated 16 45].London: printed for E. Tracy, 1710. 12],43, 1]p.:
ill.; 12
1909. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: The First Part of the
Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight. The present volume
contains the whole of the first part of the novel, which is
complete in itself. The second part, issued in 1615, the year
before his death, is of a nature of a sequel, and is generally
regarded as inferior. In writing his great novel, Cervantes set out
to parody the romances of chivalry. With reference to the fiction
of the Middle Ages, it is a triumphant satire; with reference to
modern novels, it is the first and the most widely enjoyed.
The story begins with a winter storm sweeping across a summer
resort town in New Jersey. Maggie, a recent widow, is alone with
her grief in a rented cottage on the shore. As the wind howls and
blusters around her little red house, she opens her door to a
stranger whose car has broken down on a nearby road. He explains
that he saw her single light burning on the deserted shore and
appeals to her for help and shelter from the storm.
Maggie and Walt quickly become friends . Their advanced age and
wisdom afford them the luxury of knowing that life is short so they
indulge each day to its fullest. Their friendship is symbolized by
this single light that brought them together and rescued each of
them from a life filled by loneliness and despair.
Maggie learns that Walt is not a widower, but unlike herself
has a wife, Mary, who has been hospitalized with Alzheimer's
disease and a fatal heart condition for more than a year. Walt is
despondent over his conflicting emotions. His love for Mary is
strong, but she has been unresponsive for years because of her
illness. Walt feels he needs to go on with his life but feels
guilty for doing so.
1909. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: The First Part of the
Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight. The present volume
contains the whole of the first part of the novel, which is
complete in itself. The second part, issued in 1615, the year
before his death, is of a nature of a sequel, and is generally
regarded as inferior. In writing his great novel, Cervantes set out
to parody the romances of chivalry. With reference to the fiction
of the Middle Ages, it is a triumphant satire; with reference to
modern novels, it is the first and the most widely enjoyed.
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