About this title: Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, DON QUIXOTE is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quixote of la Mancha, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval knight ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199537891ISBN:0199537895
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Good; Collectible. Introduction by L. B. Walton. 1975, Everyman's Library. Hardcover former library book in good condition. Original dust jacket in clear plastic protective cover. Edgewear. read more
Description: Very Good. Excellent copy ~ DJ in good condition showing moderate edgewear & an approx 1/2" tear on bottom front fold ~ HC in excellent condition w/corners sharp ~ Inside pages clean ~ Binding tight & square ~ read more
Edition: Unknown
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 1941
Description: Hansd Mueller. Fine ++ No Jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Boxed. some insignificant missing ink spots on red on spine o/w like new. some scuffing and rubs on box. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House New York, NY
Date Published: 1941
Description: Mueller, Hans Alexander. Very Good. No Dustjacket. Small 4to. 566 pp. vg+ Green cloth cover very lightly rubbed; endpapers yellowed. A notation in red ink at top of front free endpaper. A nice, tight copy. read more
Edition: Reprint of 1950 J.M. Cohen translation.
Publisher: Franklin Library, PA
Date Published: 1979
Description: Jose and Luis Jiminez y Aranda from 1905 1905 Cabrera Edition. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Beautiful book. Tight, clean. Owner's nameplate on inside cover. 625 p. Beautiful brown quarter leather with gilt lettering and cover pattern. Marblized end papers. read more
Edition: Segunda Edicion
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Espasa-Calpe Argentina S. A., Buenos Aires
Date Published: 1940
Description: Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Clean and tight, no markings. Front hinge starting to separate. Text in Spanish. 716pp. read more
Edition: Pre 1935
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: T. Y. Crowell and Co., New York
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Clean solid book. Some light shelf wear to cover. Pages lightly toned due to age. Text in English, Spanish. viii, 738 p. Dark red cloth over boards with gilt trim and text on spine. On spine: Don Quixote de la Mancha. read more
Edition: A limited ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pa
Date Published: 1979
Description: Jose And Luis Jimenez y Aranda. New. No dust jacket as issued. 625p: ill. Deep Rich Brown leather-effect hardcover, (not real leather, some refer to as ersatz Leather or Leatherette) with gold stamping decoration on cover top & bottom. Four raised bands on spine with gold stamping in the windows created. Gold gilded page ends on all sides. Decorative endpapers inside. Owner's bookplate inside first white page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA
Date Published: 1979
Description: Jiminez y Aranda, Jose & Luis. Very Good. No Jacket-As Issued. Classic Fiction. Half bound in brown leather with brown cloth. Gilt embellishments and titles. Pages gilded on three edges and has silk marker ribbon. Mint condition; unread. Marblized end papers. 625 pages. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gall and Inglis, London
Date Published: n. d
Description: Publisher's salmon pink polychrome binding, titles in blue on gilt to spine with added floral and gilt decorations spreading over front board, blind tooling to back board, 8vo. 32 pages advertisements to rear of text. Several detailed illustrations throughout, including frontispiece, by various artists. A very attractive copy. Some bumping to spine and corners with a little fading to spine also. Clean pages showing small clear text, just the odd smudge here and there, light foxing to page edges ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. J. Dubochet & Co, London
Date Published: 1837–9
Description: Translated from the Spanish...by Charles Jarvis, Esq. Carefully revised and corrected. Illustrated by Tony Johannot. 3 volumes, octavo (247 × 155 mm). Near-contemporary reddish-brown half hard-grained morocco, spines gilt lettered, other compartments gilt between raised bands, purple morocco-grain cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges. Engraved frontispieces and extra engraved titles, illustrations in the text thoughout. Extremities lightly rubbed, outer leaves a trifle dust-soiled, a very ... read more
Edition: First printing of this edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Washiington Square Press Inc., New York: September
Date Published: 1957
Description: Softcover. Reading copy. The epic tale of the most illustrious Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful, long-suffering squire, Sancho Panza. Their adventures in the picaresque world of sixteenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature, both an immortal satire on an outdated chivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobility can be only a form of madness. read more
"This was a tough one. So violent! But, now I'm glad I got it over with. I can't say I loved it or even that I liked it but I do have some amazing quotes, and to say that he isn't a literary genuius would be wrong indeed. I acutally met someone who did not know who Don Quixote was. This was quite a shocker to me. The windmill scene was surprisingly short, but it did say something to me about unfinished dreams and reaching for the stars. I'll have to add my favorite quotes. It's done!"
"Although Don Quixote and Sancho are both amusing characters I got desperately bored of them within the first 100 pages of this book. It was only near the end that I started to really enjoy it again, with the addition on stories that didn't circulate around Don Quixote. All in all a pleasant read, but no one that I thought I've gained anything from."
"Considered the first Western novel, Cervantes 940 pages cover just about every novel-writing technique used ever since. Great story-telling and amusing swipes at other plays, poetry, pastoral and chivalric writing. Plus special darts at a writer who wrote a fake Don Quixote, part 2 between Cervantes's own part 1, published in 1605, and part II, published in 1615. (This volume includes both parts 1 and 2. Edith Grossman's translation is both readable and scholarly. There is also included a fairly good critical essay by Harold Bloom."
"I did it. It took me about a month, but I have read the entre book of Don Quixote. I can't find many people who have... At first, I really did not like this book. Being written a long time ago, it is not a quick read. Many characers are introduced and all want to give long speeches. Needless to say, it does not move fast like a modern novel. It does take work to read this - attention and time must be put into it. I stayed with it, and then really enjoyed it. By the end, I was ready for it to be over, so I have it 3 instead of 4 stars. I did not know that Don Quixote was written in two parts, fifteen years apart, and another author had tried to write part two in the mean time. Cervantes didn't really appreciate this and makes fun of it several times in the book. I will be interested to talk about this one at book club to see what people got out of it."
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