Don Quixote Deluxe Edition - Art of the Story

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 16th century Spain. ''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.''-Vladimir Nabokov

About the author

Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.

Product details

• Authors: Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de/ Grossman Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De Cervantes, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Edith Grossman
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2015
• EAN: 9780062391667
• ISBN: 978-0-06-239166-7
• No. of pages: 992
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Art of the Story
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: Historical / Renaissance