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The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel

Author : Stephen Marlowe
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628720018
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel written by Stephen Marlowe and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of my death and life, in which fiction and that lesser truth, history, from time to time form a seamless whole. Speaking is the hero of Stephen Marlowe's brilliant new novel. He is Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: son of a barber-surgeon (always on the run from the bill collector), grandson of a converso(a Jew who chose Christianity over the flames of the Spanish Inquisition), adorer of his own sister (who may not have been his sister after all), brother of one of the most famous spies in recorded history (though the records have mysteriously vanished), prisoner in an Algerian dungeon (following capture by Barbary Pirates), friend to a Faustian eunuch astrologer named Cide Hamete Benegeli (whose missing private parts are miraculously regenerating), and, of course, creator of the most celebrated of all fictional historical novels--The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Don Quixote

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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:

The Man Who Invented Fiction

Author : William Egginton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408843862
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Invented Fiction written by William Egginton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing.' In Cervantes' time, 'fiction' was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or 'poetry' which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman, addled from reading too many books on chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off to put the world to rights. The book was hugely entertaining, broke the existing rules, devised a new set and, in the process, created a new, modern hybrid form we know today as the novel. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his life and influences converged in his work, and how his work – especially Don Quixote – radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.

No Ordinary Man

Author :
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 072061628X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Man written by and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography to be aimed at the general reader as much as at students and historians, No Ordinary Man is a fascinating study of the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the writer known as the "Spanish Shakespeare" and author of the timeless classic Don Quixote. A renaissance man in all senses of the term, Cervantes was, in his time, an adventurer, spy, soldier, hostage, and creator of the first European novel. This biography is based on the latest original research and incorporates previously unpublished material on Cervantes’ long period of captivity in Algiers, his involvement in piracy in the Mediterranean, espionage, and the Spanish Armada, and his work for the Spanish government. Containing much information never before available in English, No Ordinary Man makes an important contribution to the understanding of this unique literary and historical figure.

Quixote: The Novel and the World

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248380
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Quixote: The Novel and the World written by Ilan Stavans and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent cultural commentators, explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.

The Portable Cervantes

Author : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101173688
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Cervantes written by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1976-11-18 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exemplary Novels, 'Rinconete and Cortadillo' and 'Man of Glass'; and 'Foot in the Stirrup,' Cervantes's extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda.

The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Author : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra written by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exemplary Stories

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140442480
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Stories written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1972 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.

The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Author : Thomas Roscoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra written by Thomas Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cervantes in Algiers

Author : María Antonia Garcés
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826514707
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Cervantes in Algiers written by María Antonia Garcés and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production. No work has documented in such vivid and illuminating detail the socio-political world of sixteenth-century Algiers, Cervantes's life in the prison-house, his four escape attempts, and the conditions of his final ransom. Garces's portrait of a sophisticated multi-ethnic culture in Algiers, moreover, is likely to open up new discussions about early modern encounters between Christians and Muslims. By bringing together evidence from many different sources, historical and literary, Garces reconstructs the relations between Christians, Muslims, and renegades in a number of Cervantes's writings. The idea that survivors of captivity need to repeat their story in order to survive (an insight invoked from Coleridge to Primo Levi to Dori Laub) explains not only Cervantes's storytelling but also the book that theorizes it so compellingly. As a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), the author reads and listens to Cervantes with another ear.

Don Quixote

Author : Cervantes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603841156
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Don Quixote written by Cervantes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Montgomery's new translation of Don Quixote is the fourth already in the twenty-first century, and it stands with the best of them. It pays particular attention to what may be the hardest aspect of Cervantes's novel to render into English: the humorous passages, particularly those that feature a comic and original use of language. Cervantes would be proud. --Howard Mancing, Professor of Spanish, Purdue University and Vice President, Cervantes Society of America

Life of Miguel de Cervantes. (Bibliography. By J.P. Anderson.).

Author : Henry Edward Watts
Publisher : London : W. Scott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Miguel de Cervantes. (Bibliography. By J.P. Anderson.). written by Henry Edward Watts and published by London : W. Scott. This book was released on 1891 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Don Quijote, 2nd Norton Critical Edition

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393617474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Don Quijote, 2nd Norton Critical Edition written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diana de Armas Wilson's introductory study captures the true essence of why Cervantes's novel has become a valuable piece of our shared cultural heritage. Humour, satire, and the religious and political conflicts that plagued the era all form part of Cervantes's great vision, and Wilson's study provides thorough analysis of why we still want to read the adventures of his would-be knight errant and his loyal squire over four centuries later." --AARON KAHN, University of Sussex

Miguel de Cervantes

Author : 50Minutes,
Publisher : 50Minutes.com
ISBN 13 : 2808005202
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Miguel de Cervantes written by 50Minutes, and published by 50Minutes.com. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide! Miguel de Cervantes is often considered to be the greatest Spanish-language writer of all time, and continues to inspire writers over 400 years after his death. He is best known for his monumental novel Don Quixote, but also wrote novellas, poetry and plays. Cervantes lived and worked during the Spanish Golden Age, an incredibly vibrant and exciting period for culture and the arts, and lived a tumultuous life marked by multiple stints in prison. He took inspiration from his experiences when writing his fiction, resulting in an incredibly rich and varied body of work featuring colourful and memorable characters from all strata of society. In this book, you will learn about: • The major cultural and artistic developments of the Spanish Golden Age • Cervantes’s major works, including Don Quixote and the Novelas ejemplares • The impact of Cervantes’s writing and his influence on later writers ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | Art & Literature The Art & Literature series from the 50Minutes collection aims to introduce readers to the figures and movements that have shaped our culture over the centuries. Our guides are written by experts in their field and each feature a full biography, an introduction to the relevant social, political and historical context, and a thorough discussion and analysis of the key works of each artist, writer or movement, making them the ideal starting point for busy readers looking for a quick way to broaden their cultural horizons.

Miguel de Cervantes

Author : Henry Edward Watts
Publisher : London : A. and C. Black
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Miguel de Cervantes written by Henry Edward Watts and published by London : A. and C. Black. This book was released on 1895 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Don Quixote

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513265628
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality...The parody has become a paragon.”-Vladimir Nabokov “A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind.”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is regarded not only as the first modern novel, but also as one of the most important works of fiction ever produced. The subtle and hopeful irony, resplendent variety of characters and its thoroughly entertaining sense of adventure and friendship has dazzled readers for more than four hundred years. It was published in Spain in two volumes, first in 1605 then followed by the second in 1615. Cervantes’ use of realism and everyday language in Don Quixote was revolutionary at the time, and its influence on the development of literature may only be surpassed by the work of Shakespeare. In the opening of this extraordinary book, Alonso Quijano, a noble living in sixteenth-century Spain, has become consumed with the act of reading, and subsequently assumes the identity of the chivalrous knights that he loves to read about. Transformed into Don Quixote, he embarks on his first ill-fated journey as a “knight”. The defeated Quixote returns home, to only prepare himself better for the next adventure of delusion. On his second journey Quixote has enlisted the peasant Sancho Panza to appropriate the role of his squire. Although the duo is ridiculously mismatched in every sense, their inextricable bond is one of the most fascinating of friendships ever created on paper. Between their disordered adventures -of battling windmills and herds of sheep and endless mishaps- are the stories of those who are encountered on the journey. The book eventually becomes a hall of mirrors, and Cervantes explores preconceptions of narrative, reliability, and morality that are strikingly modern. Ultimately, Quixote’s preposterous fantasies become haunting as the reader of this book will surely begin to question what is real and what is not. The story of Don Quixote has been adapted into numerous forms, including opera, musicals, ballets, music and film. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Don Quixote is both modern and readable.

The Deceitful Marriage

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Deceitful Marriage written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1963 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was the Exemplary Novels, published three years before his death ... that established Cervantes' literary reputation among the intellectuals of his time. These picaresque stories ring with racy idiom and peasant humor, and with explicit characterizations that show how well he knew the speech and folkways and psychology of the common people. Among the Exemplary Novels presented here are three of his most famous ones: The Deceitful Marriage, a cynical tale of Spanish domestic life, merciless in its realism, pungent in its humor; The Little Gypsy, a love story of a high-spirited girl whose haunting counterpart has reappeared in the works of Goethe and Victor Hugo; and The Dogs' Colloquy, judged by many critics to be the greatest short story ever written."--Page 4 of cover.