Don Quixote

TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMAN Widely regarded as the world''s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, 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.

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.Edith Grossman is the award-winning translator of major works by many of Latin America's most important writers. Born in Philadelphia, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley before receiving her PhD from New York University. She lives in New York City.

Report

Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction

Product details

• Authors: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes
• Assisted by: Edith Grossman (Translation), Grossman Edith (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781784878962
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-896-2
• No. of pages: 992
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 43 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; FICTION / General, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary