Don Quixote - Softcover

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854712551 ISBN 13: 9781854712554

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993

Synopsis

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.

With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote generally has been recognized as the first modern novel. The book has had enormous influence on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."

About this title

About the Author

James Montgomery is a retired university librarian who has had a life-long fascination with Don Quixote. A professor of Spanish before embarking upon a career in Library Science, he has pursued graduate studies in Spanish at the University of North Carolina, UCLA, the University of Havana, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of Mexico. He has devoted 21 years to the preparation of his translation, during which time he has meticulously studied the 15 most notable translations in the English language in an effort to make this version the authoritative one in English. He makes his home in Austin, Texas, where his son is on the faculty of the University of Texas

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854712551
• ISBN 13: 9781854712554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 157