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Don Quixote de La Mancha

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780679602866 Author(s): Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Format: Hardcover Year: 1998 Edition: 1998th Publisher: Modern Library Dimensions: 145 x 211 x 52 (w x l x h) Pages: 1280 Pages: 14-18 Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)

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Description: " 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