Don Quixote
The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel
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Don Quixote Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780099469698 Published: 01/03/2005 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 992 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP
Synopsis
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. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read Don Quixote.
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Editorial Reviews
"Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction" - Carlos Fuentes
"What a unique monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" - Thomas Mann
"A fluent translation-has energy and clarity-and the rhythm of the telling is compelling" - Guardian
"Indisputably the definitive translation" - Observer
"Cervantes is the founder of the Modern Era. The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes. Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, and yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?" - Milan Kundera
"Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling" - V. S. Pritchett
"This new translation of the Spanish classic is a marvel-It is impossible not to approve of this book in every respect-I find it impossible to imagine that a better novel will be published this year" - Daily Telegraph
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