| ISBN |
9780451532299 (paperback) |
| Name |
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 author. |
| Uniform title |
Don Quixote. English |
| Title |
Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated, abridged, and with an introduction by Walter Starkie and a new afterword by Roberto González Echevarría. |
| Edition |
Abridged edition. |
| Published |
New York : Signet Classic, 2013. |
| ©2013. |
| Description |
xvii, 535 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Notes |
"An abridged version designed to relate without digressions the principal adventures of the knight and his squire."--Title page. |
| Translated from the Spanish. |
| Summary |
Brimming with humor, rich in idealism and earthy common sense, vivid in its characterizations of men and women from every walk of life, nobles, priests, impassioned damsels, simple country girls, rogues, and romantics, Don Quixote, in this zestful translation, will win many new friends. This is an abridged version of the adventures of an eccentric country gentleman and his faithful companion who set out as knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil. |
| Subjects |
Quixote, -- Fiction |
| Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction |
| Spanish fiction -- Translations into English |
| Spain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Adventure stories |
| Picaresque literature |
| Other Names |
Starkie, Walter, 1894-1976 translator, abridger, writer of introduction. |
| González Echevarría, Roberto writer of afterword. |
| Series |
Signet classics |
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