Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes - ISBN: 9781857150032
Hardcover
Mad knight, loyal squire: a timeless tale of dreams and reality.

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  • Hardcover

    1048 pages

  • Release Date

    29 November 1991

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Summary

The first great novel - and perhaps still the most influential - Don Quixote contains within it all the seeds of modern fiction. A fantastic compound of reality and illusion in which the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, 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. Between the Don’s dreams of chivalry which inaugurate t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781857150032
ISBN-10:1857150031
Author:Miguel De Cervantes, P.A. Motteux, A.J. Close
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:1048
Release Date:29 November 1991
Weight:955g
Dimensions:210mm x 133mm x 47mm
Series:Everyman's Library CLASSICS
About The Author

Miguel De Cervantes

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.

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