Publishing history of don quixote
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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Don Quixote | |
Title page from Don Quixote,&#;volume one, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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| Translator | Tobias Smollett |
| Published | London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson [and 12 others in London] |
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| Edition | Sixth |
| Language | English |
| Volumes | 4 volume set |
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| Desc. | 12mo (17 cm.) |
| Location | Shelf L-4 |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( &#; ) was a Spanish writer most famous for his novel Don Quixote.[1] Cervantes traveled to Italy as a young man, serving as a chamberlain and a solder. In he was shot three times in a battle with the Turks on the Mediterranean. Three years later he attempted to return to Spain, but was captured by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in Algiers. He remained a captive until , when his family was able to raise his ransom. This period inspired some episodes in Don Quixote and Cervantes's later plays.
Bookplate of George L. Davis.
Cervantes began to publish his writ
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Don Quixote of la Mancha (Parts I and II)
The first part of the Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote, came to life as a manuscript one year before it was published in at the printing house owned by Juan de la Cuesta in Calle Antocha, Madrid. It is possible that he began writing it at the end of the 16th century during one of the periods he spent in prison.
Like his father, Blas de Robles, who published La Galatea, the bookseller Francisco Robles, believed in Miguel de Cervantes’ literary gift and wanted to take advantage of the popularity of picaresque novels of the time to sell Don Quixote, a book that was destined to be read by squires, lords, travellers and gentlemen.
The themes, events and characters of the book have acquired the fame that the author didn’t have during his lifetime. This book, full of adventures and a masterpiece of Spanish literature, reflects on the human condition and helps one to understand the reality of a Spanish society supressed by religious and political power.
The book’s protagonist, the ingenious Alonso Quixana, a man who has very little, is too old to be a knight-errant and who is incredibly noble, has read so many chivalrous novels that he has gone mad. This is the starting point of a text t