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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.

No Ordinary Man

Author :
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 072061628X
Total Pages : 256 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 256 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.

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 USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570247
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Invented Fiction written by William Egginton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heroic history of novel-reading itself.” --The Atlantic In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his 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 unimaginable without it. William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.

The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes

Author : Aaron M. Kahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198742916
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes written by Aaron M. Kahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed, compendium.

The Life of Cervantes

Author : Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Cervantes written by Albert Frederick Calvert and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miguel's Brave Knight

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1682635309
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Miguel's Brave Knight written by Margarita Engle and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don Quixote, the first modern novel. The son of a vagabond barber-surgeon, Miguel looks to his own imagination for an escape from his family's troubles and finds comfort in his colorful daydreams. At a time when access to books is limited and imaginative books are considered evil, Miguel is inspired by storytellers and wandering actors who perform during festivals. He longs to tell stories of his own. When Miguel is nineteen, four of his poems are published, launching the career of one of the greatest writers in the Spanish language. Award-winning author Margarita Engle's distinctive picture book depiction of the childhood of the father of the modern novel, told in a series of free verse poems, is enhanced by Raúl Colón's stunning illustrations. Back matter includes a note from both the author and illustrator as well as additional information on Cervantes and his novel Don Quixote.

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.

Cervantes

Author : William Byron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557780065
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Cervantes written by William Byron and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Cervantes

Author : Robinson Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Cervantes written by Robinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cervantes's Eight Interludes

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Applause Books
ISBN 13 : 9781495013034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Cervantes's Eight Interludes written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Applause Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These eight interludes, which Cervantes published in 1615 but never saw performed, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists, pimps and prostitutes, adulterous wives and jealous husbands, and an array of other humorous figures--all of whom Cervantes treats in a critical yet sympathetic way. Although interludes (meant to go between acts of a larger play) tend to be works of light comedy, Cervantes often inbues his with deeper themes"--Page [4] of cover.

Galatea

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galatea written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 392 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'.

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 and Catholicism

Author : Michael McGrath
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539014
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Don Quixote and Catholicism written by Michael McGrath and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel’s Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes’s hero to Cervantes’s text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious sensibility. Consequently, he proposes that his study represents one way of interpreting Don Quixote and acts as a complement to other approaches. It is McGrath’s assertion that the religiosity and spirituality of Cervantes’s masterpiece illustrate that Don Quixote is inseparable from the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy. Furthermore, he argues that Cervantes’s spirituality is as diverse as early modern Catholicism. McGrath does not believe that the novel is primarily a religious or even a serious text, and he considers his arguments through the lens of Cervantine irony, satire, and multiperspectivism. As a Roman Catholic who is a Hispanist, McGrath proposes to reclaim Cervantes’s Catholicity from the interpretive tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian reading of the novel. When the totality of biographical and sociohistorical events and influences that shaped Cervantes’s religiosity are considered, the result is a new appreciation of the novel’s moral didactic and spiritual orientation.

Sunflowers Under Fire

Author : Diana Stevan
Publisher : Island House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1988180066
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Sunflowers Under Fire written by Diana Stevan and published by Island House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, Semi-finalist for 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction, and Honorable Mention 2020 Writers' Digest Self-Published Book Awards. In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love. Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.

The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Author : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra written by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly and published by London : Chapman and Hall. This book was released on 1892 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: