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Don Quixote: Complete and Unabridged |
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| Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.56 x 6.81in | 1056 pages | ISBN 9780451527868 | 01 Feb 2001 | Signet Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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Complete and unabridged, in the memorable Walter Starkie translation, this is the epic tale of Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful quire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of sixteenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature—a book that is both an immortal satire on an outdated chivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobility can be a form a madness. Imbued with superb comedy and irony, Don Quixote stands as a testament to the author’s rich artistry. It is, as Walter Starkie writes, “the first modern novel in the world, created out of a life of disillusion, privation, and poverty by a maimed ex-soldier…whose noble nature and gentle sense of humorous tolerance taught him that life is an unending dialogue between a knight of the spirit who is ever striving to soar aloft, and a squire who clings to his master and strives with might and main to keep his feet firmly planted on the ground.”
"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" —Thomas Mann
"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." —Vladimir Nabokov
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