{"product_id":"don-quixote-penguin-classics-by-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra","title":"Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith its experimental form and literary playfulness, this classic is generally recognized as the first modern novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants--Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together--and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition, with its beautiful new cover design, includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind.\" --\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!\" --\u003cb\u003eThomas Mann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Don Quixote 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....The parody has become a paragon.\" --\u003cb\u003eVladimir Nabokov\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiguel De Cervantes Saavedra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Spain in 1547 to a family once proud and influential but now fallen on hard times. His father, a poor barber-surgeon, wandered up and down Spain in search of work. Educated as a child by the Jesuits in Seville, the creator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grew up to follow the career of a professional soldier. He was wounded at Lepanto in 1571, captured by the Turks in 1575, imprisoned for five years, and was finally rescued by the Trinitarian friars in 1580. On his return to Spain he found his family more impoverished than ever before. Supporting his mother, two sisters, and an illegitimate daughter, he settled down to a literary career and had hopes of becoming a successful playwright, but just then the youthful \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLope de Vega\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e entered triumphantly to transform the Spanish theatre by his genius. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGalatea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a pastoral romance, was published in 1585, the year of Cervantes' marriage to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalina de Palacios y Salazar Vozmediano\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. But it did not bring him an escape from poverty, and he was forced to become a roving commissary for the Spanish armada. This venture, which led to bankruptcy and jail, lasted for fifteen years. Although he never knew prosperity, Cervantes did gain a measure of fame during his lifetime, and Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were known all over the world. Part I of Don Quixote was published in 1605; in 1613, his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eExemplary Novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e appeared, and these picaresque tales of romantic adventure gained immediate popularity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJourney to Parnassas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a satirical review of his fellow Spanish poets, appeared in 1614, and Part II of Don Quixote in 1615 as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eEight Plays and Eight Interludes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as the death of Shakespeare--his English contemporary, his only peer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTarget Age: 18 \u0026amp; up\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenguin Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cspan\u003eFebruary 25, 2003\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9780142437230\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.92\" H x 7.64\" L x 5.12\" W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1072 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45126085935290,"sku":"9780142437230","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/81kIVgGfc_L._SL1500.jpg?v=1757090518","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/don-quixote-penguin-classics-by-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}