Esta biografia aspira a despojar a Cervantes de los cuatrocientos anos de historia que le han caido encima para acercarnos a su dimension humana y sentimental, a su condicion de firme hombre de armas e inagotable hombre de letras, al escritor unico y a su vitalidad arrebatada, a su defensa de la muj[...]
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.[...]
Part parody and part cautionary tale, "Don Quijote" is considered a literary masterpiece. This critical edition is based on Burton Raffel's translation that comes as close as possible to recreating Miguel de Cervantes' prose style - it is consitent, fluid and modelled on the original Spanish. Carefu[...]
Don Quijote y Sancho Panza son dos buenos modelos para vivir; es mucho lo que podemos aprender de ellos. Es importante tener ideales, y es importante ocuparse de los asuntos de todos los dias. Este libro es para que los conozcas y te diviertas con sus andanzas porque esta lleno de humor y de accion.[...]
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. 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 of La Mancha and h[...]
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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 t[...]
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, "Don Quixote" was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. "Don Quixote" has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he[...]
Retells the adventures of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.[...]
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 clo[...]
A gripping novel of romance and adventure, the Persiles will moreover captivate anyone interested in Cervantes' development as a novelist; the culture of the Counter-Reformation; romance as a narrative genre; gender studies; literary theory; and the study of early modern commerce, exploration, emp[...]
First published in 1922 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the complete text of Cervantes' Rinconete y Cortadillo, which was originally published in the Novelas Ejemplares in 1613. The story is presented in Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. This b[...]
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[...]
Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Will they change the world? This is their story.[...]
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Universally acknowledged as the first modern novel, "Don Quixote was originally conceived as a comic satire lambasting the ubiquitous adventure of romance and chivalry in Cervantes' time. The picaresque tale relates the misadventures of an elderly, bewildered, half-crazy knight and his squire Sancho[...]
The most influential work of the entire Spanish literary canon and a founding work of modern Western literature, Don Quixote is also one of the greatest works ever written. Hugely entertaining but also moving at times, this episodic novel is built on the fantasy life of one Alonso Quixano, who lives[...]
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 eve[...]