Don Quixote |
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| Author:
| de Cervantes, Miguel |
| Translator:
| Smollett, Tobias George |
| Introduction by:
| Fuentes, Carlos |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8129-7210-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2004 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel,Don Quixotechronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes “the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling “observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics...
More DescriptionWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel,Don Quixotechronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes “the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling “observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, “To my mind, this is the only English rendering of theQuixotethat reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory”. This edition also contains new endnotes.