The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) image
ISBN-10:

0666086311

ISBN-13:

9780666086310

Released: Apr 23, 2020
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Format: Hardcover, 481 pages
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Excerpt from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Vol. 1 of 4IT was with considerable reluctance that I aban doued in favor of the present undertaking what had long been a favorite project, that Of a new edition of Shelton's Don Quixote, which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some - and I confess myself to be one - for whom Shelton's racy Old version, with all its defects, has a Charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes Don Quixote had to him a Vitality that only a contempo rary could feel it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anach ronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cer vantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Strat ford on one of his last journeys, and under the mul berry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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