Don Quixote
Book description
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…
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1 author picked Don Quixote as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
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…
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