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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · 2015 · 992 pages
Edith Grossman’s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, now available in a deluxe paperback edition.
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 of 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 as presented by the formidable translator Edith Grossman.
This deluxe edition features heavier stock, French flaps, and a dazzling cover that updates Cervantes’ classic for 21st-century readers.
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Jeff Tweedy
“I’ve sometimes told people that if they want to understand what ‘rock and roll’ means to me, they should read Don Quixote. Which is an unbelievably obnoxious thing to say and also something I stand by. Without Sancho Panza believing in or at least humoring his ‘liege,’ the magic evaporates. It feels incredible to suspend disbelief and subscribe to the world-changing spell cast by a rock song. What’s wrong with that? Lots, probably. But life would suck without it.”↗
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