Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142437239 ISBN 13: 9780142437230

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray - he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants - Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.

With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. This Penguin Classic edition, with its beautiful cover design, includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria.

About this title

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.

Edition details

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