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Don Quixote

Introduction by A. J. Close

By Miguel de Cervantes
Introduction by A. J. Close
Translated by P. A. Motteux

By Miguel de Cervantes
Introduction by A. J. Close
Translated by P. A. Motteux

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Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

Hardcover $32.00

Oct 15, 1991 | ISBN 9780679407584

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
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Oct 15, 1991 | ISBN 9780679407584

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About Don Quixote

Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote–pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age–and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world’s wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on the way. The first and still the greatest of all European novels, Don Quixote has been as important for the modern world as the poems of Homer were for the ancients.

Translated by P. A. Motteux

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About Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616) was born to a poor family in the town of Alcalá de Henares in Spain. After being educated in Madrid (where he was his schoolmaster’s ‘most beloved pupil’) he went to Italy where it was not… More about Miguel de Cervantes

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Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

Hardcover | $32.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Oct 15, 1991 | 1112 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679407584
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Praise

“A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with…[It is] the final and greatest utterance of the human mind.” –Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” –Lionel Trilling

“[Don Quixote is] the first and best of all novels, which nevertheless is more than a novel.” –Harold Bloom

“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches its reader to
comprehend the world as a question.” –Milan Kundera

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