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Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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Description for Cervantes
Paperback. Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 188 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1122.
Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted by what they find in the Novelas ejemplares, published in 1613 and whose composition spanned a decade and more preceding their publication. Don Quijote may be the most celebrated novel in western literature, but the Novelas ejemplares are among its most unjustly neglected masterpieces. They consist of twelve long short stories or short novels, each quite unlike the others. The geographical contrast ... Read more
Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted by what they find in the Novelas ejemplares, published in 1613 and whose composition spanned a decade and more preceding their publication. Don Quijote may be the most celebrated novel in western literature, but the Novelas ejemplares are among its most unjustly neglected masterpieces. They consist of twelve long short stories or short novels, each quite unlike the others. The geographical contrast ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
960
Condition
New
Number of Pages
960
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856687747
SKU
V9780856687747
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About Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Jonathan Thacker is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford.
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