The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha

by ,

519 pages

English language

Published March 17, 1937 by P.F. Collier & Son.

OCLC Number:
18680064

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Although published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today-perhaps from the extensive influence it has played on novelists, playwrights and even composers over the centuries, or perhaps from its eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past.

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A novel from the early 17th century that's surprisingly modern (anti-romantic, in parts meta-fiction, less sexist than I’d expected) except where it’s not (still very damned sexist, as well as antisemitic and islamophobic and racist). Also very funny and occasionally moving. I feel like I have two new friends now in Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

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Subjects

  • Spanish fiction -- 17 century -- Translations into English.
  • Adventure fiction, Spanish.
  • Quests -- Fiction.
  • Squires -- Spain -- Fiction.
  • Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Spain -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.