Don Quixote
Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 072061628X |
The first biography to be aimed at the general reader as much as at students and historians, No Ordinary Man is a fascinating study of the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the writer known as the "Spanish Shakespeare" and author of the timeless classic Don Quixote. A renaissance man in all senses of the term, Cervantes was, in his time, an adventurer, spy, soldier, hostage, and creator of the first European novel. This biography is based on the latest original research and incorporates previously unpublished material on Cervantes’ long period of captivity in Algiers, his involvement in piracy in the Mediterranean, espionage, and the Spanish Armada, and his work for the Spanish government. Containing much information never before available in English, No Ordinary Man makes an important contribution to the understanding of this unique literary and historical figure.
Author | : William Egginton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1620401762 |
In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work, and how his work--especially Don Quixote--radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics, and science, and how the world today would be unimaginable without it. William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.
Author | : Thomas Roscoe |
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Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1839 |
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Author | : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly |
Publisher | : London : Chapman and Hall |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Authors, Spanish |
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Author | : James Fitzmaurice-Kelly |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Authors, Spanish |
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Author | : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2015-12-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781347664032 |
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Author | : Thomas Roscoe |
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Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1839 |
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Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140442480 |
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.
Author | : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 1013 |
Release | : 2010-07-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849891567 |
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader.