No Ordinary Man
Title | No Ordinary Man PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 072061628X |
The first biography to be aimed at the general reader as much as at students and historians, No Ordinary Man is a fascinating study of the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the writer known as the "Spanish Shakespeare" and author of the timeless classic Don Quixote. A renaissance man in all senses of the term, Cervantes was, in his time, an adventurer, spy, soldier, hostage, and creator of the first European novel. This biography is based on the latest original research and incorporates previously unpublished material on Cervantes’ long period of captivity in Algiers, his involvement in piracy in the Mediterranean, espionage, and the Spanish Armada, and his work for the Spanish government. Containing much information never before available in English, No Ordinary Man makes an important contribution to the understanding of this unique literary and historical figure.
Don Quixote
Title | Don Quixote PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 1901 |
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
Title | The Man Who Invented Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | William Egginton |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1635570247 |
“A heroic history of novel-reading itself.” --The Atlantic 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.
The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Title | The Life and Writings of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Roscoe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 1839 |
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The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Title | The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra PDF eBook |
Author | James Fitzmaurice-Kelly |
Publisher | London : Chapman and Hall |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Authors, Spanish |
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The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Title | The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra PDF eBook |
Author | James Fitzmaurice-Kelly |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Authors, Spanish |
ISBN |
Exemplary Stories
Title | Exemplary Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Humorous stories, Spanish |
ISBN | 9780192832436 |
More popular in their day than DON QUIXOTE, Cervantes's EXEMPLARY STORIES (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. This new translation captures the full vigor of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed gems, "The Illustrious Kitchen Maid" and "The Power of Blood".