Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes (Author), Edith Grossman (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $12.87

  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read Don Quixote.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.16

  In this picture book version, Marcia Williams makes the story accessible to children in the same comic-strip style with which she has already retold several Bible stories and, most recently, Greek Myths and Sinbad the Sailor . Her portrayal of Don Quixote's numerous ill-fated adventures include the infamous charge of the windmills. It features decorative borders, speech bubbles and lots of detail. Marcia Williams is the author/illustrator of several picture books, including the retellings The Amazing Story of Noah's Ark ; Jonah and the Whale ; Joseph and his Magnificent Coat of Many Colours ; Greek Myths ; Sinbad the Sailor and The Adventures of Robin Hood , as well as her own texts When I was Little and Not a Worry in the World .

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $7.07

  Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire, Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. On his 'heroic' journey Don Quixote meets characters of every class and condition, from the prostitute Maritornes, who is commended for her Christian charity, to the Knight of the Green Coat, who seems to embody some of the constraints of virtue. Cervantes' greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader, and does not leave the author outside its circle. Peter Motteux's fine eighteenth-century translation, acknowledged as one of the best, brilliantly succeeds in communicating the spirit of the original Spanish.