{"product_id":"the-female-quixote-isbn-9780140439878","title":"The Female Quixote","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young woman is caught up in her ideas about romance and valor in this celebrated eighteenth-century parody of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she mistakes a cross-dressing prostitute for a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer. Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions? An immediate success when it first appeared in 1752, \u003ci\u003eThe Female Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully high-spirited parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Lennox \u003c\/b\u003e(1720 - 1804), American-born English novelist whose work was much admired by leading literary figures of her time, including Samuel Johnson and the novelists Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Lennox's first novel was \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Harriot Stuart\u003c\/i\u003e (1751). \u003ci\u003eThe Female Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e (1752) and \u003ci\u003eHenrietta \u003c\/i\u003e(1758) followed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Amanda Gilroy\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWil Verhoeven\u003c\/b\u003e both teach at the University of Groningen, having previously taught at Brown University in the US.  Together they have edited Gilbert Imlay's \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e for Penguin Classics and they have also published widely in the area of historical travel writing.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304533741797,"sku":"NP9780140439878","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140439878.jpg?v=1767739314","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-female-quixote-isbn-9780140439878","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}