Name: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
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Author: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN: 9782382741917

Type

Physical Book

Author

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Publisher

Les Prairies Numeriques

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9782382741917

Synopsis "Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote"

What begins as the story of a middle-aged country gentleman absorbed with novels of chivalry deliberately evolves into a tale of purely imaginative knight-errantry in this highly influential work of the Spanish Golden Age. This first of modern novels was written in the experimental episodic form, allowing Don Quixote and his 'squire' Sancho Panza to go on quests that just as often as not land them in trouble or earn them the incredulity of those fully engaged in reality. While initially farcical, the novel slowly reveals a more philosophical thread exploring the theme of deception, all the while creating emotional and mental reversals in the two main figures that take them from tilting at windmills to fully comprehending reality. A work that frequently appears on lists in the highest echelon of published fiction, "Don Quixote" is a novel that has deeply influenced a host of notable writers and readers for hundreds of years.

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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