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1) Don Quixote
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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. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator." Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera....
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Having an immediate success when first published 400 years ago, and with its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been recognized as the world's first modern novel. Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless, destroy the wicked, and win the heart of his beloved Dulcinea. Seated upon...
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Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic monographs. Series Documentación cervantina volume no. 16
Clásicos castellanos volume 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22
Clásicos Castalia volume 77, etc
Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic monographs. Clásicos para estudiantes volume no. 2
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Clásicos castellanos volume 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22
Clásicos Castalia volume 77, etc
Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic monographs. Clásicos para estudiantes volume no. 2
More Series...
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10) The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight, Don Quixote of the Mancha
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Harvard classics volume 14
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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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The story follows the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) named Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante), reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood....
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