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  Don Quixote

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years..
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  Don Quijote (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is a literary masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition of Don Quijote is based on Burton Raffel's masterful translation. The Raffel translation comes as close as possible to recreating Cervantes's inimitable prose style-the translation is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish. Diana de Armas Wilson provides a thought-provoking introduction... (more)
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  Don Quijote

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  Great Books of the Western World Vol. 29. Cervantes.

  by Mortimer J. (Ed.) Adler

  Excerpt: ... methinks," said he, " we have talked till our throats are dry; but I have got, hanging at my saddle-bow, that which will refresh them;" when, rising up, he quickly produced a large bottle of wine, and a pastry half-a-yard long, without any exaggeration; for it was made of so large a rabbit that Sancho thought verily it must contain a whole goat, or at least a kid; and, after due examination, "How,"... (more)
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  Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1 (BIBLIOTECA CERVANTES) (Biblioteca De Autor / Author Library) (Spanish Edition)

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  Si bien Miguel de Cervantes historia de un hijo seco y avellanado"", EL QUIJOTE es la obra cumbre de su labor literaria, uno de los libros fundamentales de la cultura universal y, como novela, la mas grande de todos los tiempos y aquella en que hunde sus raices la narrativa moderna. La presente edicion, precedida de una esclarecedora introduccion de Antonio Rey que situa la obra dentro del contexto de la vida de... (more)
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  The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor

  by Earl Shorris

  A conversation in a prison cell sparks an ambitious undertaking to attack the roots of long-term poverty. The idea came from a woman in a maximum-security prison: the difference between rich and poor is the humanities. The writer took that idea and started a course at the Clemente Family Guidance Center in New York. With a faculty of friends, he began teaching the humanities at the college level to dropouts,... (more)
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  Shakespeare's lost play : in search of Cardenio

  by Gregory Doran

  Many believe Cardenio , a play "lost" for centuries, to be the work of England's greatest dramatist. Gregory Doran, the Royal Shakespeare Company's new director, takes the reader on a fascinating search through the fog of literary history on his quest to discover and stage a missing masterpiece.
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  Double Falsehood

  Or, The Distrest Lovers

  by Lewis Theobald, Brean S. Hammond, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher

  On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the published version claims that the play was 'Written Originally by W.SHAKESPEARE'.   Double Falsehood's plot is a version of the story of Cardenio found in... (more)
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  Don Quixote of the Mancha: The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books. Volume 14. Registered Edition, 1965.Don Quixote of the Mancha: The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight.
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  Don Quixote (Complete and unabridged, A Signet Classic)

  Don Quixote - Unabridged Version.
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  Joseph Andrews With Shamela and Related Writings (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Henry Fielding

  This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews , edited by Martin Battestin. An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding’s satire of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men , selections from The Champion , and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple ... (more)
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  "Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel

  by Fe?lix Marti?nez-Bonati

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish
• The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of the Macha By Miguel De Cervantes (Harvard Classics, Collector's Edition)

  

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  The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of the Macha By Miguel De Cervantes (Harvard Classics, Collector's Edition)

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  The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda

  A Northern Story

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  Cervantes' final novel, an exotic romance, and the novel he considered to be his finest.
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  The Total Library: Non-fiction 1922-1986

  by Jorge Luis Borges

  Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In "The Total Library", more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been... (more)