Don Quixote - Softcover

Williams, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744536251 ISBN 13: 9780744536256

Publisher: Walker Books, 1995

Synopsis

In this picture book version, Marcia Williams makes the story accessible to children in the same comic-strip style with which she has already retold several Bible stories and, most recently, "Greek Myths" and "Sinbad the Sailor". Her portrayal of Don Quixote's numerous ill-fated adventures include the infamous charge of the windmills. It features decorative borders, speech bubbles and lots of detail. Marcia Williams is the author/illustrator of several picture books, including the retellings "The Amazing Story of Noah's Ark"; "Jonah and the Whale"; "Joseph and his Magnificent Coat of Many Colours"; "Greek Myths"; "Sinbad the Sailor" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood", as well as her own texts "When I was Little" and "Not a Worry in the World".

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"        Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?"
----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 travel through sixteenth-century Spain. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator.
----The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. From Milan Kundera: "Cervan-
tes is the founder of the Modern Era. . . . The novelist need answer to no one but
Cervantes." Lionel Trilling observed: "It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote." Vladmir Nabo-kov wrote: "Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes's womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality. . . . He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon." And V. S. Pritchett observed: "Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling."


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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0744536251
• ISBN 13: 9780744536256
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32