Don Quixote sets off on his travels through 16th century Spain to right wrongs and rescue damsels in distress but his adventures - such as the incident in which he mistakes windmills for giants and attacks them - are both comic and romantic. In the end he returns to his village, a dying man who still believes in heroes and is a hero himself.

This title chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read this title.

Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, biography of the author, and a further reading list.

Smollett's lively rendition of Cervantes's epic burlesque attempts to catch the feeling and tone of the Spanish original - a comic novelist's homage to a comic novelist.

Judge Parry retells the story of the Spanish knight whose devotion to the tales of chivalry leads him in to a series of bizarre adventures. '

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Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is considered a literary masterpiece. This critical edition is based on Burton Raffel's translation which recreates Miguel de Cervantes' prose style. Included are 15 critical essays which interpret the novel and selected episodes.

Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Will they change the world? This is their story.

A play by Miguel de Cervantes translated by Philip Osment.

El Viejo Celoso and El Celoso Extremeno are representative of Miguel de Cervantes' short works in two different genres: the short, one-act comedy and the extended short story. This edition provides an extensive introduction, including new research and new critical thought.

'Don Quixote' is a masterpiece of world fiction, a brilliant satire on traditional romances and an uproarious comedy and a prose-epic in a new genre for its time. Illustrated by Gustave Dore.

Features explanations of themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of characters and quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, and facts and essay topics.

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The first English translation of two captivity plays by Cervantes, set in Algiers and Constantinople. Featuring a lively cast of corsairs, captives, and renegades, they offer important insights into early modern Spain's conception of the world of Islam.

The first European novel, and one of the greatest, is a comic study of delusion and its consequences; Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha, takes to the road in search of adventure and remains undaunted in the face of repeated disaster. With music of the period.