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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
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Description for Don Quixote
Hardcover. A mixture of reality and illusion, this is the story of the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, who set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat. The narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy. Translator(s): Motteux, P.A. Num Pages: 1048 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1008.
The first great novel - and perhaps still the most influential - Don Quixote contains within it all the seeds of modern fiction. A fantastic compound of reality and illusion in which the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce and fantasy on the way. Between the Don's dreams of chivalry which inaugurate the novel, and his death which concludes it, Cervantes explores a range of experience and feeling worthy of his great ... Read more
The first great novel - and perhaps still the most influential - Don Quixote contains within it all the seeds of modern fiction. A fantastic compound of reality and illusion in which the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce and fantasy on the way. Between the Don's dreams of chivalry which inaugurate the novel, and his death which concludes it, Cervantes explores a range of experience and feeling worthy of his great ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1048
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857150032
SKU
V9781857150032
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About Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes (Author) Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five ... Read more
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