Follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way through Spain.
A parody of chivalric romances, this story of an elderly knight and his loyal squire offers a strikingly modern narrative that also reflects the historical realities of 17th-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.
The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written. When first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel.
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The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
Cervantes' masterpiece has been translated into more than sixty languages, and the novel's fantasy-driven "knight," Don Quixote, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, rank among fiction's most recognized characters.
CERVANTES ( reveals SANCHO's donkey , RUCIO ) . And Squire Sancho Panza is accompanied by his celebrated ass - RUCIO ! DON QUIXOTE . Do you intend to mount that animal ? SANCHO . My donkey , Rucio ? He's my darling , señor Knight ...
An abridged English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through Spain and become subject to the noble knight-errant's fanciful ...
A middle-aged Spaniard, impressed by the fantasy he finds in books, sets off with his servant to revive the age of chivalry.
The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
While Don Quixote thinks of himself as a brave knight, his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza, finds out the truth as they battle real and imaginary enemies. Copyright © Libri GmbH....
He used to walk with a hollow cane , pointed at one end ; and whenever he met with a dog in the street , or in any other place , he clapped his foot on one of the creature's hind legs , pulled up the other with his hand , and applying ...
Lathrop bases this translation, designed for students of Literature in Translation courses, on his well-known Spanish edition, keeping some major features of that edition—a similar introduction and the explanatory footnotes...
An illustrated retelling of the exploits of an idealistic Spanish country gentleman and his shrewd squire who set out, as knights of old, to search for adventure, right wrongs, and punish evil.
This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theater, and literature.
The book has had enormous influence on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, 'just as some people read the Bible.'
The book has had enormous influence on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, 'just as some people read the Bible.'
Cervantes would be proud. --Howard Mancing, Professor of Spanish, Purdue University and Vice President, Cervantes Society of America
It is impossible not to approve of this book in every respect' Daily Telegraph 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 ...