{"product_id":"don-quixote-isbn-9780060934347","title":"Don Quixote","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain in this brilliant example of picaresque satire. You haven't experienced \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e in English until you've read this masterful translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eEdith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e in English until you've read this masterful translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“What a unique monument is this book!…How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Mann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is thrilling to add Grossman’s to the bookshelf of Don Quixote possibilities. Her rendition confirms that Cervantes’ imperfect masterpiece is as much at home in Shakespeare’s tongue as it is in Spanish.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This new version of Don Quixote is thoroughly modern...the words are familiar, the humor’s intact.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustin American-Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimeless Praise for \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e  “Cervantes is the founder of the Modern Era…. The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes. Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, and yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilan Kundera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes’s womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality….He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVladimir Nabokov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Grossman translation blows the dust off Cervantes, leaving his light-footed prose and his sly, gentle mockeries.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Edith Grossman’s] rendering of Cervantes’ prose conveys all of its complex subtleties in a fresh and attractive style that is neither overly traditional nor colloquial.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This new translation relates the story of the man of La Mancha and his vivid imagination in a way that is more in tune with a 21st-century reader.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Marvelous new translation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grossman has given us an honest, robust and freshly revelatory Quixote for our times” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A major literary achievement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ms. Grossman…has provided a Quixote that is agile, playful, formal and wry…. What she renders splendidly is the book’s very heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLionel Trilling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888555651301,"sku":"NP9780060934347","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060934347.jpg?v=1730229334","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/don-quixote-isbn-9780060934347","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}