Being normal is simply for the unimaginative. In literature, as in life, it’s the weirdos that shake things up and make you love them. (Insert your favorite Jennifer Lawrence GIF here.) Whether they’re bobbing along on their own dreamlike ocean or hot on the trail of utter nonsense, the dotty-as-you-please characters are the ones who […]
Don Quixote: Introduction by A. J. Close
Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote–pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age–and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world’s wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on the way. The first and still the greatest of all European novels, Don Quixote has been as important for the modern world as the poems of Homer were for the ancients.
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Translated by P. A. Motteux
Don Quixote: Introduction by A. J. Close
Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote–pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age–and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world’s wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on the way. The first and still the greatest of all European novels, Don Quixote has been as important for the modern world as the poems of Homer were for the ancients.
Translated by P. A. Motteux
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780679407584 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 10/15/1991 |
Series: | Everyman's Library Classics Series |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 1112 |
Sales rank: | 132,780 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 2.00(d) |
Lexile: | 1500L (what's this?) |
Age Range: | 14 - 18 Years |
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