Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
Author: William Egginton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1620401762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work, and how his work--especially Don Quixote--radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics, and science, and how the world today would be unimaginable without it. William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.
Transnational Cervantes
Author: William Childers
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014-03-21
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1442615117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead, he examines early modern Spanish cultural production as an antecedent to contemporary postcolonial literature, especially Latin American fiction of the past half century. In order to construct his new context for reading Cervantes, Childers proceeds in three distinct phases. First, Cervantes' relation to the Western literary canon is reconfigured, detaching him from the realist novel and associating him, instead, with magic realism. Second, Childers provides an innovative reading of The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda as a transnational romance, exploring cultural boundaries and the hybridization of identities. Finally, Childers explores traces of and similarities to Cervantes in contemporary fiction. Theoretically eclectic and methodologically innovative, Transnational Cervantes opens up many avenues for research and debate, aiming to bring Cervantes' writings forward into the brave new world of our postcolonial age.
Zia Summer
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1504011813
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Chicano PI hunts his cousin’s killer in “a compelling thriller [with] a deep-seated respect for the traditions of a people and a culture” (Booklist). The great-grandson of a legendary lawman and gunfighter, thirty-year-old Sonny Baca hopes he possesses even a tenth of El Bisabuelo’s courage. But instead of cleaning up New Mexico by hunting down dangerous desperadoes, the struggling PI looks for missing persons and deadbeat husbands. The game changes when his cousin Gloria—the first woman Sonny ever loved—is brutally slain. Her corpse is found drained of blood. A zia sun sign, the symbol on the New Mexican flag, is carved on her stomach. Gloria’s husband, Frank Dominic, a politician making a run for mayor of Albuquerque, has a powerful motive for murder. But Gloria wasn’t the first victim. A year earlier, another woman was slain in the exact same way. Is a serial killer on the loose? Or is this the handiwork of some satanic cult? Feeling his cousin’s spirit crying out for justice, Sonny and his girlfriend begin a search that takes them across New Mexico’s polluted South Valley to an environmental compound in the mountains. As Sonny moves closer to the truth, he uncovers a chilling connection between his past and a very real and present evil . . .
The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Published: 1821
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
Author: Cervantes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2009-03-15
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1603841164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping novel of romance and adventure, the Persiles will moreover captivate anyone interested in Cervantes' development as a novelist; the culture of the Counter-Reformation; romance as a narrative genre; gender studies; literary theory; and the study of early modern commerce, exploration, empire, and anthropology. New to this edition of Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan's critically acclaimed translation are an updated Introduction and bibliography reflecting recent directions in scholarship on the Persiles, as well as reproductions of woodcuts from a work believed to have served Cervantes as a key anthropological source.
The Man who was Don Quixote
Author:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of the sixteenth-century soldier, slave, actor, playwright, prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, and author of Don Quixote.
Sunflowers Under Fire
Author: Diana Stevan
Publisher: Island House Publishing
Published: 2019-04-12
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1988180066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, Semi-finalist for 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction, and Honorable Mention 2020 Writers' Digest Self-Published Book Awards. In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love. Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.
Don Quixote of La Mancha
Author:
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271082318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An adaptation, in graphic novel format, of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes"--Provided by publisher.
