Name: Don Quixote
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Author: Cervantes, de de
ISBN: 9781548080884

Type

Physical Book

Author

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

166

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

28.0 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN13

9781548080884

Synopsis "Don Quixote"

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. It had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word "quixotic" and the epithet "Lothario". Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse, and Wilhelm Meister.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, September 29, 1547-Madrid, April 22, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, playwright, and soldier. He is widely considered one of the foremost figures in Spanish literature. He was the author of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, a novel commonly known as Don Quixote, which made him world-famous and which many critics have described as the first modern novel, as well as one of the greatest works of world literature, whose number of editions and translations is only surpassed by the Bible. Cervantes has been dubbed the "Prince of Wits".

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