Name: Don Quixote Part 1 of 3: In Spanish and English: Volume 1 (Don Quixote in Spanish and English) (in Spanish)
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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN: 9781497487659

portada Don Quixote Part 1 of 3: In Spanish and English: Volume 1 (Don Quixote in Spanish and English) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Translated by

John Ormsby

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

816

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm

Weight

1.07 kg.

ISBN13

9781497487659

Synopsis "Don Quixote Part 1 of 3: In Spanish and English: Volume 1 (Don Quixote in Spanish and English) (in Spanish)"

The novel "Don Quixote" is over four hundred years old (first appearing in 1605, fifteen years prior to the Mayflower reaching the shores of Massachusetts), yet it is still alive and "fresh" today. Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky called Don Quixote "the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking." Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens admitted that his most-revered work, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was based on -- or at least heavily influenced by -- this satirical picaresque novel by Cervantes. Ernest Hemingway opined that American literature began with "Huck Finn"; thus, we can trace a literary lineage flowing from Cervantes to Twain to Hemingway and onwards. Considering the above, it is fitting that a native English speaker wanting to learn Spanish (beyond the basic phrases revolving around bathrooms and beer, as well as conversational necessities such as "How are you?", "What is your name?" etc.) would want to read Don Quixote in its original language; and, of course, a native Spanish speaker wanting to learn English could use this volume to the same end. This edition allows for that, with alternating paragraphs in the original Spanish and the translation into English.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 29 de septiembre de 1547-Madrid, 22 de abril de 1616) fue un novelista, poeta, dramaturgo y soldado español.
Es ampliamente considerado una de las máximas figuras de la literatura española. Fue el autor de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, novela conocida habitualmente como El Quijote, que lo llevó a ser mundialmente conocido y a la cual muchos críticos han descrito como la primera novela moderna, así como una de las mejores obras de la literatura universal, cuya cantidad de ediciones y traducciones solo es superada por la Biblia. A Cervantes se le ha dado el apelativo de «Príncipe de los Ingenios».

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