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Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3891250
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3891248
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3891251
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174934048
Author : MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 1183 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The History of Don Quixote (Complete) In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun. He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hook. The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman. They will have it his surname was Quixada or Quesada (for here there is some difference of opinion among the authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable conjectures it seems plain that he was called Quexana. This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair’s breadth from the truth in the telling of it. You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get. But of all there were none he liked so well as those of the famous Feliciano de Silva’s composition, for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight, particularly when in his reading he came upon courtships and cartels, where he often found passages like “the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty;” or again, “the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves.” Over conceits of this sort the poor gentleman lost his wits, and used to lie awake striving to understand them and worm the meaning out of them; what Aristotle himself could not have made out or extracted had he come to life again for that special purpose. He was not at all easy about the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took, because it seemed to him that, great as were the surgeons who had cured him, he must have had his face and body covered all over with seams and scars. He commended, however, the author’s way of ending his book with the promise of that interminable adventure, and many a time was he tempted to take up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, which no doubt he would have done, and made a successful piece of work of it too, had not greater and more absorbing thoughts prevented him. Many an argument did he have with the curate of his village (a learned man, and a graduate of Siguenza) as to which had been the better knight, Palmerin of England or Amadis of Gaul. Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter of valour he was not a whit behind him. The History of Don Quixote (Complete)
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89003380060
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4089882
Author : MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3956700414
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192834835
The classic Spanish tale of humorous chivalry, depicting the exploits of a man who believes he's a knight bringing justice and truth to the world.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467732475
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.
Author : Alexander James Duffield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001940780
Author : MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
When we reflect upon the great celebrity of the "Life, Exploits, and Adventures of that ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha," and how his name has become quite proverbial amongst us, it seems strange that so little should be known concerning the great man to whose imagination we are indebted for so amusing and instructive a tale. We cannot better introduce our present edition than by a short sketch of his life, adding a few remarks on the work itself and the present adapted reprint of it.The obscurity we have alluded to is one which Cervantes shares with many others, some of them the most illustrious authors which the world ever produced. Homer, Hesiod,—names with which the mouths of men have been familiar for centuries,—how little is now known of them! And not only so, but how little was known of them even by those who lived comparatively close upon their own time! How scattered and unsatisfactory are the few particulars which we have of the life of our own poet William Shakspere!
Author : de Cervantes, Miguel
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785000641644
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.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120806188
Author : Miguel De Cervantes,John Ormsby
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 1343 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786155529726
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. In 1687 John Phillips, Milton's nephew, produced a "Don Quixote" "made English," he says, "according to the humour of our modern language." His "Quixote" is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day. But it is, after all, the humour of "Don Quixote" that distinguishes it from all other books of the romance kind. It is this that makes it, as one of the most judicial-minded of modern critics calls it, "the best novel in the world beyond all comparison." It is its varied humour, ranging from broad farce to comedy as subtle as Shakespeare's or Moliere's that has naturalised it in every country where there are readers, and made it a classic in every language that has a literature.
