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Don Quixote (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Alpha Editions
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9386019965

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Don Quixote (World Classics, Unabridged) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, 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. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality.

Don Quixote (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789386834737

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Don Quixote (World Classics, Unabridged) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, 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. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality.

Don Quixote

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467732475

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Obsessed with tales of gallant knights, Don Quixote, a middle-aged man from La Mancha, decides to take his own adventure. Donning rusty armor and riding upon an old horse, he sets off to change the world and save his invented damsel in distress in the name of chivalry. Unfortunately, Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza are met with a host of ill-intentioned characters, and the pair often find themselves the butt of a joke rather than chivalrous saviors. This renowned tragic comedy, written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, was first published in Spain in two parts in 1605 and 1615. This is an unabridged version of John Ormsby's English translation from 1885.

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (illustrated)

Author : de Cervantes, Miguel
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785000641644

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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (illustrated) by de Cervantes, Miguel Pdf

Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation.

Don Quixote (illustrated & annotated)

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547725596

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Don Quixote (illustrated & annotated) by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Don Quixote (illustrated & annotated) - The Unabridged Classic Ormsby" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is the version based on unabridged classic Ormsby translation, fully illustrated by Gustave Doré. Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes, published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. John Ormsby (1829–1895) was a nineteenth-century British translator. He is most famous for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time. Ormsby's translation has seen more editions than any other nineteenth-century English version of the novel, having been included in the Heritage Book Club series of great novels, and in the famous Great Books of the Western World set.

Don Quixote

Author : Cervantes
Publisher : Iboo Academic Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1641814330

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Don Quixote by Cervantes Pdf

World's Classics Deluxe Edition The deluxe edition of this World Classic is collected from the Guardiand's and the Telegraph's "the 100 greatest novels of all time" list. iBoo Press House uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work. We preserve the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. All Deluxe Edition titles are designed with a nice Digital Cloth(TM) Blue Cover inside the jacket cover, quality paper and a large font that's easy to read.

Don Quixote

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015062087732

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

The father of the modern novel and a comic masterpiece, Don Quixote has acquired mythic status and remains as fresh today as when it first appeared nearly 400 years ago. This translation by Charles Jarvis conveys the flavor of the original Spanish, and the introduction by Milan Kundera illuminates the volume.

Ulysses (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789386834591

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Ulysses (World Classics, Unabridged) by James Joyce Pdf

Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes.

David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 1021 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789386834263

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David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged) by Charles Dickens Pdf

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious

DON QUIXOTE

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : YouHui Culture Publishing Company
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION IT WAS with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Shelton's "Don Quixote," which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some- and I confess myself to be one- for whom Shelton's racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes; "Don Quixote" had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages. But it was soon made plain to me that to hope for even a moderate popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine old crusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it would be only by a minority. His warmest admirers must admit that he is not a satisfactory representative of Cervantes. His translation of the First Part was very hastily made and was never revised by him. It has all the freshness and vigour, but also a full measure of the faults, of a hasty production. It is often very literal- barbarously literal frequently- but just as often very loose. He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never seems to occur to him that the same translation of a word will not suit in every case. It is often said that we have no satisfactory translation of "Don Quixote." To those who are familiar with the original, it savours of truism or platitude to say so, for in truth there can be no thoroughly satisfactory translation of "Don Quixote" into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable, or that the untranslatable words, numerous enough no doubt, are so superabundant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is peculiar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of "Don Quixote" is instructive. Shelton's, the first in any language, was made, apparently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First Part. It has been asserted that the Second, published in 1620, is not the work of Shelton, but there is nothing to support the assertion save the fact that it has less spirit, less of what we generally understand by "go," about it than the first, which would be only natural if the first were the work of a young man writing currente calamo, and the second that of a middle-aged man writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is the same, the very same translations, or mistranslations, occur in it, and it is extremely unlikely that a new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to carry off the credit.

Dialogues and Essays

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199552405

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Dialogues and Essays by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pdf

Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.

Don Quixote Part 1

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Knights and knighthood
ISBN : 1547209984

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Don Quixote Part 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

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.

The Lost World (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789386834836

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The Lost World (World Classics, Unabridged) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Spurred on by the woman he loves, young journalist Edward Malone eagerly joins forces with irascible Professor Challenger on an expedition to South America. They are accompanied by Professor Summerlee, keen to expose his old rival as a fraud, and soldier-adventurer, Lord John Roxton. Their mission is to verify Challenger's claim of the existence of a mysterious Jurassic-age plateau untouched by human civilization that brings both wonder and terror in the form of prehistoric creatures, from fierce ape-men to grazing iguanodons and rookeries of pterodactyls.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789386834676

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (World Classics, Unabridged) by Mark Twain Pdf

Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken, abusive 'Pap' and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798723352001

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated) by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

No library's complete without the classics! Don Quixote, or The Ingenious Genteman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is the story of a nameless man who seeks to revive chivalry, rights the world's wrongs and bring justice. He uses the name Don Quixote and recruits a squire named Sancho Panza who acts as a foil to his imagined knighthood. Don Quixote has often been called one of the greatest novels ever written. Complete Original Unabridged Illustrated with book-end doodles about reading