The Exemplary Novels

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140442489

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Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.

Author : Miguel de Unamuno
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Spain
ISBN : UCSC:32106014205709

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Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Unamuno Pdf

'No Spanish voice was heard during the fifty years of his active intellectual life which could compare with his in the strength of his passion nor in the profound seriousness with which he challenged every complacency...The central idea in all his fiction is the struggle to create faith from doubt and ethics from inner strife.'

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001941343

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The Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486451527

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Three Exemplary Novels/Tres Novelas Ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

From the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature, comes this trio of novellas: "La gitanilla," a gypsy romance; "El coloquio de los perros," a dialogue between two dogs; and "Rinconete y Cortadillo," a day in the underworld of 18th-century Seville. Introduction, new English translation, and notes.

Author : Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789361429354

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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

"The Exemplary Novels" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a collection of brief memories that exhibit Cervantes' mastery of narrative and character improvement. This series consists of twelve novellas that cover a wide variety of topics, such as love, honor, deception, and justice. Each novella in the series gives a unique story with numerous characters and settings, providing a glimpse into the human revel in in seventeenth-century Spain. Cervantes' storytelling prowess shines via as he weaves intricate plots, moral dilemmas, and surprising twists that engage readers and initiate idea. Through these exemplary novels, Cervantes explores the complexities of human nature, the effects of selections, and the moral challenges that individuals face of their pursuit of happiness and fulfillment. The tales are rich in symbolism, wit, and social observation, reflecting Cervantes' eager observations of Spanish society and the human condition. "The Exemplary Novels" exemplify Cervantes' ability as a storyteller and his ability to craft compelling narratives that resonate with readers across time and lifestyle. This collection remains a timeless masterpiece of Spanish literature, showcasing Cervantes' enduring impact at the genre of the novel and his affect on subsequent generations of writers.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008388822

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The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:4064066464752

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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

Exemplary Novels ("Novelas ejemplares") is a series of novellas (short stories) that were written by the great Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes between 1590 and 1612, and printed in 1613. The book followed the publication of the first part of Don Quixote, for which Cervantes is best known for. The novellas have a moralistic intention to them and are usually grouped into two series: those characterized by an idealized nature and those of a realistic nature. Cervantes boasted in his foreword to have been the first to write novellas in the Spanish language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175004282805

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The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Anonim Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Domestic fiction, Spanish
ISBN : UCSC:32106014966417

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The Deceitful Marriage by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

"It was the Exemplary Novels, published three years before his death ... that established Cervantes' literary reputation among the intellectuals of his time. These picaresque stories ring with racy idiom and peasant humor, and with explicit characterizations that show how well he knew the speech and folkways and psychology of the common people. Among the Exemplary Novels presented here are three of his most famous ones: The Deceitful Marriage, a cynical tale of Spanish domestic life, merciless in its realism, pungent in its humor; The Little Gypsy, a love story of a high-spirited girl whose haunting counterpart has reappeared in the works of Goethe and Victor Hugo; and The Dogs' Colloquy, judged by many critics to be the greatest short story ever written."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226768670

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Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion by María de Zayas y Sotomayor Pdf

At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.

Author : William Egginton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620401767

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The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton Pdf

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work, and how his work--especially Don Quixote--radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics, and science, and how the world today would be unimaginable without it. William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Spanish fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106005747107

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Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520066715

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Novelas Amorosas Y Ejemplares by María de Zayas y Sotomayor Pdf

Five men and five women entertain their hostess with stories exploring some aspect of enchantment or love between a handsome gallant and a lovely lady. The sharp contrast between the women's and men's stories transmits a subtle, often ironic, feminism.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001989101

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The Exemplary Novels,2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pdf

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734022494

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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

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