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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Paperback

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 151200653X
ISBN13: 9781512006537
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 2 2015
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.71
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
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.

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