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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

by Miguel De Cervantes
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/06/2011

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An old man, enchanted by tales of knightly courage, puts on his rusty armour and sets out on a quest of his own. For him, the world is filled with giants, knights and a peerless mistress. Others, such as his earthy squire Sancho Panza, see windmills, sheep and vulgar serving girls. But such prosaic interpretations do not satisfy the greatest figure in Western literature: Don Quixote. Quixote's story moving, funny and thrilling embodies the glory and absurdity, vanity and idealism, sorrow and delight of humanity. Cervantes created a hero for all time and for all mankin.
ISBN:
9781843794097
9781843794097
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-06-2011
Publisher:
Naxos Audio Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
29
Dimensions (mm):
137x168x58mm
Weight:
0.75kg
Miguel De Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand.

He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write Don Quixote.

Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.

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