Why did I love this book?
I had John Rutherford’s saucy translation of this book, which had been sitting on my shelf since 2004, before finally picking it up last spring. Having grown up watching the musical on TV, I thought the book might be dull and predictable, but I was astonished to find a story about the perils of story-telling and the pleasures of reading. Even the second part was replotted mid-way by Cervantes to foil his many imitators and forgers.
I now understand why Marx and Engels, themselves a kind of Quixote/Sancho Panza pair, considered this work to be a model for how modern ideological media can be both manipulative and mind-expanding.
1 author picked Don Quixote as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 10, 11, 12, and 13.
From the award-winning team behind the acclaimed retelling of Jonathan Swifts GULLIVER comes an accessible, lavishly illustrated edition of a beloved classic.One of the funniest and most touching novels ever written, Don Quixote has forever memorialized the story of a Spanish gentleman who reads so many books about chivalric knighthood that he is convinced his own destiny is to become a knight-errant. And so he embarks upon a series of fantastical adventures across sixteenth-century Spain, accompanied by his faithful and philosophical squire, Sancho Panza. Superbly retold by Martin Jenkins and illustrated with great wit and humor by Chris Riddell, this…