Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed, Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives, followed by his potbellied… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Widely acknowledged as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote features two of the most famous characters ever created: Don Quixote de la Mancha, the tall, bewildered, and half-crazy knight, and Sancho Panza… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A founding work of modern Western literature, Cervantes' masterpiece has been translated into more than 60 languages and the novel's elderly knight, Don Quixote, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, rank among fiction's most… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself Don Quixote and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the fantasy world of literary romance has… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) What begins as a middle-aged country gentleman absorbed with novels of chivalry deliberately evolves into a tale of purely imaginative knight-errantry in this highly influential work of the Spanish Golden Age. This first of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The story of the Spanish knight whose devotion to tales of chivalry leads him and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, into a series of bizarre adventures blends fantasy, comedy, and drama in a way that has gripped the world's… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the classic early 17th century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by Walter Starkie ; with a new introduction by Edward H. Friedman.
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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