Added by: babakinfos | Karma: 2207.37 | Fiction literature | 2 January 2020
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Don Quixote (Signet Classics, annotated)
Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ narrative,” Don Quixote is a novel that is both immortal satire of an outdated chivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobility was a form of madness.
Added by: babakinfos | Karma: 2207.37 | Fiction literature | 8 April 2016
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Don Quixote - Cervantes
Here are two renditions of well-known novel, Don Quixote, by Cervantes. Both of them are highly reliable. The earlier translation by John Ormsby has a classic tinge, accompanied by Gustave Doré's fine illustrations, and of course takes you much more time to peruse (but the pleasure you get out of this engagement is surely worth it!). The second translation is a modern and more easily digestible one by Edith Grossman, which has been highly praised. This rendition is prefaced by prolific literary critic Harold Bloom
Due to the embedded illustrations in Ormsby's rendition, the size of the files is rather large.
Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain.
Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Will they change the world? This is their story
