Don Quixote Of The Mancha: The First Part Of The Delightful History Of The Most Ingenious Knight
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Few works in the history of world literature have endured as triumphantly as Don Quixote of the Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes' towering masterpiece that chronicles the misadventures of an idealistic, aged gentleman from La Mancha who, maddened by a lifelong obsession with chivalric romances, renames himself Don Quixote, dons a battered suit of armour, and sets out with his earthy, pragmatic squire Sancho Panza to revive knight-errantry in a world that has long since abandoned it. Published as part of the prestigious Harvard Classics series — edited by Charles W. Eliot and translated here by Thomas Shelton — this first part of the novel presents the full arc of Quixote's deluded yet strangely noble quest, including his legendary battle with windmills he mistakes for giants, his courtly devotion to the peasant girl he crowns Dulcinea del Toboso, and the endless comic collisions between his romantic vision and brutal reality. Written in early 17th-century Spain and widely regarded as the first modern novel, Don Quixote stands as a profound meditation on the nature of reality, imagination, idealism, and the very act of storytelling itself. Cervantes masterfully holds in tension the comic and the tragic, the mundane and the transcendent, producing a work whose influence stretches across four centuries and into the works of Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and beyond. Shelton's translation — itself a historic document, being the earliest English rendering of the text — preserves the vigorous, ironic spirit of the original with remarkable fidelity. Whether encountered for the first time or revisited with fresh eyes, this edition invites the reader to ask a question that Cervantes never quite answers: in a world stripped of wonder, who truly is the madman?
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few works in the history of world literature have endured as triumphantly as Don Quixote of the Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes' towering masterpiece that chronicles the misadventures of an idealistic, aged gentleman from La Mancha who, maddened by a lifelong obsession with chivalric romances, renames himself Don Quixote, dons a battered suit of armour, and sets out with his earthy, pragmatic squire Sancho Panza to revive knight-errantry in a world that has long since abandoned it. Published as part of the prestigious Harvard Classics series — edited by Charles W. Eliot and translated here by Thomas Shelton — this first part of the novel presents the full arc of Quixote's deluded yet strangely noble quest, including his legendary battle with windmills he mistakes for giants, his courtly devotion to the peasant girl he crowns Dulcinea del Toboso, and the endless comic collisions between his romantic vision and brutal reality. Written in early 17th-century Spain and widely regarded as the first modern novel, Don Quixote stands as a profound meditation on the nature of reality, imagination, idealism, and the very act of storytelling itself. Cervantes masterfully holds in tension the comic and the tragic, the mundane and the transcendent, producing a work whose influence stretches across four centuries and into the works of Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and beyond. Shelton's translation — itself a historic document, being the earliest English rendering of the text — preserves the vigorous, ironic spirit of the original with remarkable fidelity. Whether encountered for the first time or revisited with fresh eyes, this edition invites the reader to ask a question that Cervantes never quite answers: in a world stripped of wonder, who truly is the madman?