{"product_id":"don-quixote-of-la-mancha-paperback","title":"Don Quixote of La Mancha - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiguel De Cervantes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Ormsby\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eIlan Stavans\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote of La Mancha\u003c\/i\u003e--called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel--inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and a video teaching series and live online book club discussions led by passionate experts. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDescribed as \"the novel that invented modernity,\" Miguel de Cervantes's \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote of La Mancha\u003c\/i\u003e has become since its publication in Spain in two parts--the first in 1605, the second in 1615--a machine of meaning, endlessly adapted into ballet, theater, dance, film, music, and television, not to mention a veritable tourist industry.\u003cbr\u003e Lionel Trilling argued that \"all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Mark Twain was a passionate fan. Flaubert modeled \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e after it. Dostoyevsky reimagined its protagonist in \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e. And Borges, in his story about Pierre Menard, looked at it as the gravitational center of Hispanic civilization. Milan Kundera fittingly summarized this unstoppable devotion when he said that \"Cervantes teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.\"\u003cbr\u003e Of course, \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e has its detractors, too. Nabokov, for instance, maintained it was one of the cruelest narratives ever. Still, after 400 years, the book remains with us, winding improbably through history like the famous errant knight and his companion, Sancho Panza.\u003cbr\u003e The commemorative Restless Classics edition, published on the four-hundredth anniversary of its full release, features John Ormsby's canonical English translation, illustrations by award-winning Mexican artist Eko, and an insightful, thought-provoking introduction by Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost public intellectuals today. \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, Stavans writes, is \"not only a novel but a manual of life. You'll find in it anything you need, from lessons on how to speak and eat and love to an exhortation of a disciplined, focused life, an argument against censorship, and a call to make lasting friends, which, in Cervantes's words, is 'what makes bearable our long journey from birth to death'.\"\u003cbr\u003e The volume includes access to an interactive series of video lectures by Stavans, available online at restlessbooks.com\/quixote. The videos serve as map to this restless classic, which speaks more eloquently than ever to our perennial desire to sacrifice for a dream in order to see its true worth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra\u003c\/b\u003e, Spain's greatest literary figure, was born in Alcalá de Henares, a small town near Madrid, on October 9, 1547. He served as a soldier in the Spanish army, fighting in the Battle of Lepanto, where he received serious wounds and lost the use of his left hand. He was captured by Barbary pirates on a return journey to Spain from Italy in 1575 and spent five years imprisoned in Algiers. After his release, he worked as a government official and wrote plays, poetry, and fiction. The first part of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote of La Mancha\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1605, to immediate success, and the second part in 1615. He died in Madrid on April 23, 1616. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlan Stavans\u003c\/b\u003e is the publisher of Restless Books and Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include, most recently, \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Travel\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, co-written with Joshua Ellison) and \u003ci\u003eQuixote: The Novel and the World\u003c\/i\u003e (Norton). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e British translator \u003cb\u003eJohn Ormsby \u003c\/b\u003e(1829-1895) was most famous for his 1885 translation of Miguel de Cervantes' \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote de la Mancha\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps the most thorough and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time. His translation went through more editions than any other nineteenth-century version of the novel and was the first English version of the book to appear complete on the Internet. In his introduction, Ormsby scrutinized every previous major English version of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e and offered a controversial analysis of the work, critiquing Cervantes' writing style and refuting the commonly held view that Don Quixote is an innately noble character.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 960\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.2 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769021038880,"sku":"9781632060754","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/314e6f1aee19df246b511668496cc4c4.webp?v=1780341202","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/don-quixote-of-la-mancha-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}