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Don Quixote Vol. 1: The First Part of Cervantes's Classic Comic Adventure
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206092
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Don Quixote Vol. 1 is the first part of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's great comic masterpiece, one of the founding works of the modern novel. Convinced by his reading of chivalric romances that the world still waits for knights, giants, enchantments, and heroic deeds, Don Quixote leaves home with his loyal, earthy, and increasingly indispensable squire Sancho Panza. What follows is at once a comedy of delusion, a parody of romance, an adventure across Spain, and a profound study of imagination, dignity, folly, loyalty, and the stories by which human beings make sense of their lives.
First published in 1605, the opening volume of Don Quixote established Cervantes as one of the great writers of world literature and transformed the possibilities of prose fiction. Its humour ranges from broad physical comedy to subtle irony, while its emotional force lies in the tension between illusion and reality, madness and nobility, ridicule and compassion. This edition will interest readers of classic literature, Spanish literature, literary satire, comic fiction, adventure fiction, early modern literature, and the history of the novel.
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