Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

From the publisher. 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...

En 1605 aparecio en Madrid la primera parte de El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, suprema cumbre del castellano y de la novelistica de todos los tiempos. Poeta, dramaturgo de gran fuerza y originalidad, entremesista prodigioso, creo la novela corta espanola con sus Novelas Ejemplares -- 1613 -- documento impar de la lengua espanola y reflejo de su tiempo. - Cover flap.

Celebrate Cervantes? Masterpiece, Don Quijote de La Mancha, the greatest novel in Spanish Literature Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of...

A retelling of the exploits of an idealistic Spanish country gentleman and his shrewd squire who set out, like knights of old, to search for adventure, right wrongs, and punish evil.

An idealistic country gentleman and his squire, Sancho Panza, set out like the knights of old to search for adventure and to set wrongs right.

Presents the classic Spanish tale of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world, accompanied by essays, notes, and a study of Cervantes's language.

"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...