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Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 177356398X
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Don Quixote Complete Revised written by Miguel de Cervantes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Argentina Palacios
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486110397
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Adventures of Don Quixote written by Argentina Palacios and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-read retelling of the hilarious misadventures of Don Quixote, the idealistic knight, and his squire, Sancho Panza, who set out to right the wrongs of the world. Abridged version with six charming illustrations.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625585624
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in two volumes, but complete here, a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written."
Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679602860
Total Pages : 1282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Don Quixote de La Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?" ----Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, 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. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator. ----The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. From Milan Kundera: "Cervan- tes is the founder of the Modern Era. . . . The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes." Lionel Trilling observed: "It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote." Vladmir Nabo-kov wrote: "Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes's womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality. . . . He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon." And V. S. Pritchett observed: "Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun- dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.
Author : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142437230
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read 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.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Adventures of don Quixote de la Mancha; tr. by C. Jarvis, revised. Illustr. by T. Johannot written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Schmidt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773567348
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Critical Images written by Rachel Schmidt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the tall, lanky Don Quixote and the short, stout Sancho Panza become staple figures of Western iconography, so well known that their silhouettes are easily recognizable in Picasso's famous work? How did the novel Don Quixote, a parody of the romances of knight errantry, become a paean to the long-suffering, impotent nobility of its deluded protagonist? According to Rachel Schmidt, the answers to both questions are to be found in the way in which the novel's characters and episodes were depicted in early illustrated editions. In Critical Images Schmidt argues that these visual images presented critical interpretations that both formed and represented the novel's historical reception. Schmidt analyses both Spanish and English illustrations, including those by William Hogarth, John Vanderbank, Francis Hayman, José del Castillo, and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, and explores several of the iconographic traditions present in the illustrations: the burlesque, which focuses on the work's slapstick humour; the satirical, which emphasizes Cervantes's supposed didactic, Enlightenment message; and the sentimental, which highlights Don Quixote's purity of heart and purpose. Schmidt demonstrates that the illustrations offset the neoclassical criticism contained in the same volumes and reveals an intriguing variety of historical readings, highlighting the debates, controversies, and conflicts of interests surrounding interpretations of Don Quixote. Dealing with such topical issues as canon formation, visual semiotics, and the impact of visual media on public opinion, Critical Images will be of great value not only to literary scholars and literary historians but also to art historians and those engaged in cultural and media studies.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Adventures of don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by Motteux. New, revised ed written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. ... by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by Several Hands: and Publish'd by Peter Motteux. Adorn'd with New Sculptures. ... written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D. Presberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045965
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Adventures in Paradox written by Charles D. Presberg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. ... by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by Several Hands: and Published by the Late Mr. Motteux. Revis'd A-new ... by Mr. Ozell: ... written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel De Cervantes
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6155529728
Total Pages : 1343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel De Cervantes and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 1343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of our English translations of "Don Quixote" is instructive. Shelton's, the first in any language, was made, apparently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First Part. It has been asserted that the Second, published in 1620, is not the work of Shelton, but there is nothing to support the assertion save the fact that it has less spirit, less of what we generally understand by "go," about it than the first, which would be only natural if the first were the work of a young man writing currente calamo, and the second that of a middle-aged man writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is the same, the very same translations, or mistranslations, occur in it, and it is extremely unlikely that a new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to carry off the credit. In 1687 John Phillips, Milton's nephew, produced a "Don Quixote" "made English," he says, "according to the humour of our modern language." His "Quixote" is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day. But it is, after all, the humour of "Don Quixote" that distinguishes it from all other books of the romance kind. It is this that makes it, as one of the most judicial-minded of modern critics calls it, "the best novel in the world beyond all comparison." It is its varied humour, ranging from broad farce to comedy as subtle as Shakespeare's or Moliere's that has naturalised it in every country where there are readers, and made it a classic in every language that has a literature.
Author : James A. Parr
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910840
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Related Subjects written by James A. Parr and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of major figures, texts, and periods in Spanish literature prior to 1700. It applies - and interrogates - modern critical theory. Contributing to its cohesiveness are the time span addressed (1330-1630) and the emphasis throughout on literary tradition and critical approaches. It is inspired partly by Ramiro de Maeztu's 1926 monograph, Don Quixote, Don Juan y la Celestina, devoted to the three characters Maeztu felt to be the most important in the Spanish literary canon. include Celestina. The volume is divided into three parts. The first of these deals with Don Quixote, the second centers around the Don Juan figure created by Tirso de Molina, while the third ventures farther back in time to treat the major texts of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, along with the problematic period concepts Renaissance and Baroque. James A. Parr is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Riverside.
