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The Female Quixote |
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Charlotte Lennox - Author
Amanda Gilroy - Editor/introduction
Wil Verhoeven - Editor/introduction
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| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 528 pages | ISBN 9780140439878 | 26 Jun 2007 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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A young woman is caught up in her ideas about romance and valor in this celebrated eighteenth-century parody of Don Quixote
Written in 1752 and admired by Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and Dr. Johnson, The Female Quixote relates the comic misadventures of Arabella, a hapless aristocrat whose life becomes hopelessly confused with the romantic fiction she so adores. Charlotte Lennox parodies the style of Cervantes throughout, creating a high-spirited send-up of upper-class mores and literary convention. Timeless in its irreverent observations, this is a treasure of eighteenth-century English literature.
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