Don Quixote (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series) - Softcover

De Cervantes, Miguel; SparkNotes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586633953 ISBN 13: 9781586633950

Publisher: SparkNotes, 2002

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From the Inside Flap:

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles 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 the Quixote that 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist best known for his magnum opus Don Quixote, which has been called one of the best novels ever written. He died on April 23, 1616. Cervantes had a profound influence on the Spanish language. The manga adaptation was created by Variety Art Works, a manga production studio noted for sales topping 2.8 million copies.

About this edition

• Publisher: SparkNotes
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1586633953
• ISBN 13: 9781586633950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72