Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142437239 ISBN 13: 9780142437230

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.

Translated with Notes by John Rutherford
Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría

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Review:

"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" --Thomas Mann

"Don Quixote 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....The parody has become a paragon." --Vladimir Nabokov

About the Author:

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) , the son of a poor Spanish surgeon, achieved enormous success with the publication of the first part of Don Quixote in 1605.

John Rutherford is a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, where he teaches Spanish and Spanish-American language and literature.

Roberto Gonz&aacutelez Echevarr&iacuteais Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142437239
• ISBN 13: 9780142437230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1072