Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) An abridgement of the classic tale of chivalry, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quioxte de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the classic early-seventeenth-century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world.Introduction by Ilan Stavans ; illustrations… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes ; a new translation by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Harold Bloom.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) 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… read more
Publisher: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 442 pp.
ISBN: 9780802128157
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Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A riveting novel centred on Carlos Trevino, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and widespread violence that caused him to leave the force, when he's hired by a wealthy… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The marquis of Villafria, having squandered his fortune on a dissolute life in Madrid, has had to retire to rural Andalusia, to the town of Villafria, with his young daughter Dona Luz. There he comes under the sway of Don Acisclo… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Dona Perfecta is a novel written by Benito Perez Galdos, a well-known Spanish writer. The book is set in the fictional town of Orbajosa, which is located in the Castilian region of Spain. The story revolves around the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Doña Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. What she cannot leave behind is her history: an illegitimate birth that defines who she is and what her future holds.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Double Room is intellectually thrilling and compulsively readable while straddling both fiction and nonfiction. The book is made up of four parts, each of which is in turn divided into two sections. While these four "double rooms… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the… read more