Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Paperback | Pages: 1023 pages Rating: 3.87 | 195612 Users | 7391 Reviews
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| Original Title: | El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha |
| ISBN: | 0142437239 (ISBN13: 9780142437230) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha |
| Setting: | La Mancha(Spain) Barcelona, Catalonia(Spain) Spain |
| Literary Awards: | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Adaptation from Another Medium & Best Humor Publication (2014), Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ for Ισπανόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2010), Premio de traducción literaria Valle Inclán for John Rutherford (2002) |
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Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his 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. The book has been enormously influential 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."Present Containing Books Don Quixote
| Title | : | Don Quixote |
| Author | : | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1023 pages |
| Published | : | February 25th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published 1615) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Fiction. Coming Of Age. Writing. Books About Books. Novels |
Rating Containing Books Don Quixote
Ratings: 3.87 From 195612 Users | 7391 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books Don Quixote
Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to Don Quixote, written around 1605 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. A few interesting facts: (1) The book was originally written in Spanish, (2) I read an English translation as when I attempted to read the Spanish, between the changes in language over 400 years and my own limitations of the language at the time I read it, (3) this is considered one of the first "modern" novels and (4) all the great writers in the 19th century looked to this novel and author asFinally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Why did no one tell me this book is hilarious? I can't believe it took me so long to finally pick it up.Don Quixote is densest in the early chapters, which are packed full of footnotes that should be read for full context. I highly recommend using two bookmarks-- one for your place in the story and one for in the notes. If this seems too much like hard work, I want to reassure you
Cervantes, Don Quixote. "In a certain corner of la Mancha, the name of which I do not choose to remember, there lately lived one of those country gentleman, who adorn their halls with rusty lace and worm-eaten target, and ride forth on the skeleton of a horse, to course with a sort of a starved greyhound."Don Quixote is one of my favorite comedies of all time. This opening phrase is steeped with irony and sarcasm. We are introduced to the loser town which the author is obviously embarrassed to
The Double-Edged SwordIt is a double-edged sword isn't it, reading great books too early in life? If we read a book too early in life, we may not grasp it fully but the book becomes part of us and forms a part of our thinking itself, maybe even of our writing. But on the other hand, the reading is never complete and we may never come back to it, in a world too full of books. And if we wait to read till we are mature, we will never become good readers and writers who can do justice to good
This book wore my @ss out! It's funny and good and I love tomes but I don't think I was totally ready this time. Whew ...... The narrator was great on audio but I couldn't keep up in my book for reasons so I just listened. Happy Reading!Mel ❤
Don Quixote, I answered, and looked into almost shocked facial expressions, followed by quiet, uncomfortable giggling. What was the question? If my friends at the coffee table had asked: What is your favourite book, Lisa?, and received that answer, they would have nodded knowingly, sympathetically, adding some random fact about the 1000+-page-classic I claimed to love more than the countless other books I have read. But that was not the question. It was:With which literary character do you
In this tale of episodes, a story of great funniness, Cervantes invites us to laugh at the madness of his hero with the head stuffed with the absurdities found in the novels of chivalry a genre very popular especially in Spain between 1300 and 1600, where everyone likes to listen to it (we make public readings) or to read, the people as well as the crowned heads.A hilarious parody of chivalry novels, a real social critique at a time when Spanish power is experiencing a decisive crisis, Don
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