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Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Martin (RTL) Jenkins, Harold Bloom, Edith Grossman, Samuel Putnam - Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised Backgrounds and Sources Criticism
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pros: Laugh out loud funny, clever, elegant.
cons: Long. Lots of archaic language to be figured out
Don Quixote De La Mancha
In the village of La Mancha, we are told, lives a fairly well-off gentleman of around fifty years of... See Full Review
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pros: the wonderful second half really redeems this book beautifully
cons: well, you kind of have to read the first half to get to it...
Two roads to sanity which one will Don Quixote take?
This review is dedicated to Macresarf1, who urged me to "dip into more classic stuff and the better... See Full Review
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pros: Great language, Great characters
cons: Long and repetitive at times
A Not So Quixotic Book
Quixotic has come into our language to mean something along the lines of "foolishly impractic... See Full Review
Product Details
| Key Information | |
| Illustrator | Chris Riddell |
| Authors | Martin (RTL) Jenkins |
| Fiction Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | "All prose fiction is a variation of the theme of 'Don Quixote': ...the problem of appearance and reality." |
| Book Editions | |
| Book Editions | <Edition><item name="format">Hardcover</item><item name="pages">1239</item><item name="date">August 01, 1998</item><item name="publisher">Modern Library</item><item name="measurements">8.5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1.75"(d), 2.35 lbs.</item><item name="isbn">9780679602866</item></Edition> |
