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Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation... Read Full Overview

"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 squire Sancho Panza." With these words, Walter Starkie... Read Full Overview

Hailed by Dostoyevsky as "The final and greatest utterance of the human mind," Don Quixote constitutes a founding work of modern Western literature. Cervantes' masterpiece has been translated into more than sixty languages, and the novel's fantasy-driven "knight," Don... Read Full Overview

"Backgrounds and Context" invites readers to explore the creative process that culminated in the publication of Don Quijote. Included are selections from works parodied by Cervantes (Amadis of Gaul and Orlando Furioso) and a portion of the spurious sequel to Part 1 written by... Read Full Overview

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha es la obra cumbre de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, y una de las obras m s influyentes de la literatura espa ola y hasta de la literatura universal. Adem s, se le considera la primera novela moderna.Es una parodia de los libros de... Read Full Overview

Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes' belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel. Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced... Read Full Overview

Con la pluma maestra de Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quijote de la Mancha" te sumerge en las peripecias de un hidalgo enloquecido que se cree a sí mismo un caballero andante. Armado con su ingenio, lanza y un corazón imperturbable, Don Quijote desafía molinos de viento, convirtiendo... Read Full Overview

A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a profound examination of how psychological coercion mixed with... Read Full Overview

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The story follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza,... Read Full Overview

Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation... Read Full Overview

Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes, now available in a deluxe paperback edition.

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this celebrated... Read Full Overview

La edicin definitiva de la mejor novela espaola de todos los tiempos Edicin del Cuarto centenario de la Segunda Parte del Quijote 1615-2015 Texto crtico, prlogos y notas de Francisco Rico Con los grabados de la primera edicin espaola ilustrada El texto ha sido fijado a partir... Read Full Overview