Best Selling Books by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

"The Exemplary Novels" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a collection of brief memories that exhibit Cervantes'' mastery of narrative and character improvement. This series consists of twelve novellas that cover a wide variety of topics, such as love, honor, deception, and justice. Each novella in the series gives a unique story with numerous characters and settings, providing a glimpse into the human revel in in seventeenth-century Spain. Cervantes'' storytelling prowess shines via as he weaves intricate plots, moral dilemmas, and surprising twists that engage readers and initiate idea. Through these exemplary novels, Cervantes explores the complexities of human nature, the effects of selections, and the moral challenges that individuals face of their pursuit of happiness and fulfillment. The tales are rich in symbolism, wit, and social observation, reflecting Cervantes'' eager observations of Spanish society and the human condition. "The Exemplary Novels" exemplify Cervantes'' ability as a storyteller and his ability to craft compelling narratives that resonate with readers across time and lifestyle. This collection remains a timeless masterpiece of Spanish literature, showcasing Cervantes'' enduring impact at the genre of the novel and his affect on subsequent generations of writers.

Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam''s acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two ''Exemplary Novels, ''Rinconete and Cortadillo'' and ''Man of Glass''; and ''Foot in the Stirrup,'' Cervantes''s extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda.

This Illustrated & Translated edition of "Don Quixote" includes: Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel. Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled as the first modern novel and one of the greatest ever written. Don Quixote is also one of the most-translated books in the world.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T059509 With an initial Advertisement leaf in vol.1. London: printed for J. Knaplock; D. Midwinter; and W. Churchill, 1719. 4v., plates; 12°

With regard to Don Quixote, it need hardly be said that its object is satire upon the books of knight-errantry, which were so much used in the time of Cervantes, and especially by the Spanish. He conceived that these books were likely to give his countrymen false ideas of the world; to fill them all, but especially the young, with fanciful notions of life, and so make them unfit to meet its real difficulties and hardships. In order to exhibit the absurdity of such works (it must be remembered too, that the more famous books of knighthood had given rise to a host of spurious imitations, with all their faults and none of their beauties), the author of Don Quixote represents a worthy gentleman with his head turned by such reading, and then sallying forth and endeavouring to act in this plain matter-of-fact world (where there are windmills, and not giants-inns, and not castles-good honest hosts and hostesses, and not lords and ladies-chambermaids, and not peerless beauties-estates to be got by hard labour, and not islands to be given away to one''s dependants as if by enchantment), endeavouring to act, we say, as if all that was said in Amadis de Gaul, and Palmerin of England, and Olivante de Laura, were really true.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T059478 Vols.1 and 5 have engraved titlepage. Dublin: printed by T. Henshall, [1795?]. 5v., plates; 12°

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T059501 London: printed for D. Midwinter, W. Innys, R. Ware, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton [and 8 others in London], 1743. 4v., plates; 12°

Numantia presents the patriotic story of collective sacrifice in the face of General Scipio''s siege. It shows the collapse of the pre-Roman city of Numancia, in Spain, during the time when Genera Scipio Aemilianus built a huge wall around the city. This prevented the entrance of food or the citizens'' escape, leading to the defeat of the Iberians by hunger. Cervantes adds a slight love angle to the main political-military subject to increase the audience''s interest. The most incredible thing about this tragedy is that there are no main characters. All Numantians act as one absolute power. Each character embodies a different aspect of life and comes from a separate class of society, but during War, all differences are forgotten, and everyone joins the hand. Numantia has a historical value apart from its artistic merit. It was declared by some critics to be the first work of actual tragic power that appeared in Europe since the extinction of the Greek and Roman drama.