Books with title Don Quixote de la Mancha 1866

" Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?"----Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, 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. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator.----The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. From Milan Kundera: "Cervan-tes is the founder of the Modern Era. . . . The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes." Lionel Trilling observed: "It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote." Vladmir Nabo-kov wrote: "Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes's womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality. . . . He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon." And V. S. Pritchett observed: "Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling."The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha—called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel—inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and a video teaching series and live online book club discussions led by passionate experts. Described as “the novel that invented modernity,” Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote of La Mancha has become since its publication in Spain in two parts—the first in 1605, the second in 1615—a machine of meaning, endlessly adapted into ballet, theater, dance, film, music, and television, not to mention a veritable tourist industry. Lionel Trilling argued that “all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” Mark Twain was a passionate fan. Flaubert modeled Madame Bovary after it. Dostoyevsky reimagined its protagonist in The Idiot. And Borges, in his story about Pierre Menard, looked at it as the gravitational center of Hispanic civilization. Milan Kundera fittingly summarized this unstoppable devotion when he said that “Cervantes teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.” Of course, Don Quixote has its detractors, too. Nabokov, for instance, maintained it was one of the cruelest narratives ever. Still, after 400 years, the book remains with us, winding improbably through history like the famous errant knight and his companion, Sancho Panza. The commemorative Restless Classics edition, published on the four-hundredth anniversary of its full release, features John Ormsby’s canonical English translation, illustrations by award-winning Mexican artist Eko, and an insightful, thought-provoking introduction by Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost public intellectuals today. Don Quixote, Stavans writes, is “not only a novel but a manual of life. You’ll find in it anything you need, from lessons on how to speak and eat and love to an exhortation of a disciplined, focused life, an argument against censorship, and a call to make lasting friends, which, in Cervantes’s words, is ‘what makes bearable our long journey from birth to death’.” The volume includes access to an interactive series of video lectures by Stavans, available online at restlessbooks.com/quixote. The videos serve as map to this restless classic, which speaks more eloquently than ever to our perennial desire to sacrifice for a dream in order to see its true worth.

[Leido en espanol por Jesus Ramos y Eladio Ramos] Tras saber que el Turco baja por la costa con una peligrosa armada, Don Alonso Quijano, el caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, saldra, una vez mas, y con la oposicion de su sobrina y de su ama, a una nueva batalla que empezara en la Mancha y terminara en la costa.Vestido con su armadura de estilo renacentista, bastante anticuada para la epoca, 1615, el ''loco'' caballero andante del que todos se burlan emprendera sus aventuras con su fiel escudero. El miedoso Sancho Panza, que incita y halaga los combates imaginarios del hidalgo, decide partir con este para apoyarle, como siempre, en sus empresas. Sancho tambien espera recibir la recompensa de transformarse en gobernador de una isla, una antigua promesa que le fue hecha por don Quijote.Pero su amo ya tiene muy claro cual es la prioridad de sus batallas: deshacer el hechizo de su amada, la imaginaria Dulcinea, a quien jamas ha visto. Para ello ira a la cueva negra a encontrarse con Montesinos. Se topara con su siguiente aventura en medio del camino. Aceptara las honras y homenajes del Duque, quien por burla le dice que para desencantar a Dulcinea Sancho debe recibir algunos miles de azotes.

It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned infavor of the present undertaking what had long been afavorite project, that of a new edition of Shelton’s “ Don Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. Thereare some —and I confess myself to be one —for whom Shelton’s racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm thatno modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess.Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to thesame generation as Cervantes ; Don Quixote ” had to him avitality that only a contemporary could feel ; it cost him nodramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them ; there isno anachronism in his language ; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himselfmost likely knew the book ; he may have carried it home withhim in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys,and under the mulberry tree at New Place joined hands witha kindred genius in its pages.But it was soon made plain to me that to hope for evena moderate popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine oldcrusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority,but it would be only by a minority. His version has strongclaims on sentimental grounds, but on sentimental groundsonly. His warmest admirers must admit that he 'is not a satisfactory representative of Cervantes. His translation of theFirst Part was very hastily made —in forty days he says inhis dedication —and, as his marginal notes show, never re- vised by him. It has all the freshness and vigor, but also afull measure of the faults, of a hasty production.

[Leido en espanol por Jesus Ramos y Eladio Ramos] Tras saber que el Turco baja por la costa con una peligrosa armada, Don Alonso Quijano, el caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, saldra, una vez mas, y con la oposicion de su sobrina y de su ama, a una nueva batalla que empezara en la Mancha y terminara en la costa.Vestido con su armadura de estilo renacentista, bastante anticuada para la epoca, 1615, el ''loco'' caballero andante del que todos se burlan emprendera sus aventuras con su fiel escudero. El miedoso Sancho Panza, que incita y halaga los combates imaginarios del hidalgo, decide partir con este para apoyarle, como siempre, en sus empresas. Sancho tambien espera recibir la recompensa de transformarse en gobernador de una isla, una antigua promesa que le fue hecha por don Quijote.Pero su amo ya tiene muy claro cual es la prioridad de sus batallas: deshacer el hechizo de su amada, la imaginaria Dulcinea, a quien jamas ha visto. Para ello ira a la cueva negra a encontrarse con Montesinos. Se topara con su siguiente aventura en medio del camino. Aceptara las honras y homenajes del Duque, quien por burla le dice que para desencantar a Dulcinea Sancho debe recibir algunos miles de azotes.

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Entirely in Spanish, this two-volume unabridged pedagogical Spanish-language edition was prepared by two leading scholars, one Hispanic and the other American. It has been widely praised and welcomed by Spanish teachers especially for the critical apparatus which clarifies words and phrases as well as allusions, for the succinct grammatical overiew, and for the editors' careful critical commentaries.