The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha

The Harvard classics / edited by Charles W. Eliot

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519 pages

English language

Published May 11, 1937 by P.F. Collier & Son.

OCLC Number:
18680064

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Although published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today-perhaps from the extensive influence it has played on novelists, playwrights and even composers over the centuries, or perhaps from its eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past.

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4 stars

This took me quite a while to get through, and after reading the literary criticism at the back of the Norton Critical Edition I still feel like I read it very shallowly. I liked the translation. I got the feeling that a lot of the wordplay and jokes were rendered into English well. Much of the material struck chords with me. The image of a man out of his time, doing things in a certain way because that's how he's read that they're done resonates particularly well.

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Subjects

  • Spanish fiction -- 17 century -- Translations into English.
  • Adventure fiction, Spanish.
  • Quests -- Fiction.
  • Squires -- Spain -- Fiction.
  • Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Spain -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.