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Don Quijote
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ISBN 9707700610 (970-770-061-0)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Contenidos: Presentación; Un Novela Para El Siglo XXI por Mario Vargas Llosa; La Invención Del "Quijote" por Francisco Ayala; Cervantes Y El "Quijote" por Martin de Riquer; Nota Al Texto por Francisco Rico; Don Quijote De La Mancha, Edición y notas de Francisco Rico; La Lengua De Cervantes Y El "Quijote" por Jose Manuel Blecua, Guillermo Rojo, Jose Antonio Pascual, Margit Frank, Claudio Guillen; Glosario. [via]
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Florencio Sevilla Arroyo

ISBN 1400093015 (1-4000-9301-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by De Cerva

ISBN 0844271705 (0-8442-7170-5)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co

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The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.

Las reconocidas obras de la literatura de esta serie constituyen el más valioso tesoro de la literatura universal. Estos libros de cubierta imitación cuero, a un precio muy conveniente, halagan cualquier biblioteca, poniendo las palabras de Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoievski, y Tolstoi al alcance de todos.
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Don Quijote De La Mancha
by Miguel Saavedra De Cervantes, Florencio Sevilla

ISBN 842067205X (84-206-7205-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Si bien Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) gustaba de presentarlo como «la(*CR*)historia de un hijo seco y avellanado», EL QUIJOTE es la obra cumbre de(*CR*)su labor literaria, uno de los libros fundamentales de la cultura(*CR*)universal y, como novela, la más grande de todos los tiempos y aquella(*CR*)en que hunde sus raíces la narrativa moderna. La presente edición,(*CR*)precedida de una esclarecedora introducción de Antonio Rey que sitúa la(*CR*)obra dentro del contexto de la vida de su autor y de la época en que fue(*CR*)escrita, ha corrido a cargo de Florencio Sevilla, quien se ha guiado por(*CR*)un criterio de absoluta fidelidad al texto de la príncipe, a fin de(*CR*)ofrecer un «Quijote» lo más próximo posible al original que Cervantes(*CR*)concibiera. [via]
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Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by Salvador Dali, Miguel De Cervantes, Martin de Riquer

ISBN 8408055496 (84-08-05549-6)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Don Quijote De La Mancha / Don Quixote Man of La Mancha
by Miguel Saavendra De Cervantes, Eduardo Alonso, Victor G. Ambrus, Martin de Riquer

ISBN 8431673966 (84-316-7396-6)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A.

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Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edicion Especial IV Centenario
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Andres Pozo

ISBN 8467016906 (84-670-1690-6)
Hardcover, Espasa Calpe, S.A.

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography, book analysis and quotations. This book features the table of contents linked to every part and chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

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Don Quijote de la Mancha (ortografia y titulo original: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Qvixote de la Mancha) es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Editado en 1605, es una de las obras mas destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las mas traducidas.

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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 1853267953 (1-85326-795-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes, Walter Starkie

ISBN 0451528905 (0-451-52890-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory. This edition also contains new endnotes.

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Don Quixote
by Michael Burgan

ISBN 0613048709 (0-613-04870-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Don Quixote
by Michael Harrison

ISBN 0613214528 (0-613-21452-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Don Quixote
by Tobias George Smollett, Miguel De Cervantes

ISBN 1593080468 (1-59308-046-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Widely acknowledged as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantess Don Quixote features two of the most famous characters ever created: Don Quixote, the tall, bewildered, and half-crazy knight, and Sancho Panza, his rotund and incorrigibly loyal squire. The comic and unforgettable dynamic between these two legendary figures has served as the blueprint for countless novels written since Cervantess time.

An immediate success when first published in 1604, Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. Seated upon his lean nag of a horse, and accompanied by the pragmatic Sancho Panza, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain seeking glory and grand adventure. Along the way the duo meet a dazzling assortment of characters whose diverse beliefs and perspectives reveal how reality and imagination are frequently indistinguishable.

Profound, powerful, and hilarious, Don Quixote continues to capture the imaginations of audiences all over the world.

Features illustrations by Gustave Doré.
Carole Slade specializes in late medieval and early modern European literature.Her publications include St. Teresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life and Approaches to Teaching Dantes Divine Comedy. She teaches Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Don Quixote of the Mancha: Harvard Classics 1909
by Miguel De Cervantes, Thomas Shelton

ISBN 0766181804 (0-7661-8180-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight. The present volume contains the whole of the first part of the novel, which is complete in itself. The second part, issued in 1615, the year before his death, is of a nature of a sequel, and is generally regarded as inferior. In writing his great novel, Cervantes set out to parody the romances of chivalry. With reference to the fiction of the Middle Ages, it is a triumphant satire; with reference to modern novels, it is the first and the most widely enjoyed. [via]
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by Tom Lathrop

ISBN 158977003X (1-58977-003-X)
Softcover, Juan De LA Cuesta

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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha
by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 1589770242 (1-58977-024-2)
Softcover, Linguatext Ltd

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Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traducidas

La novela consta de dos partes: la primera, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, fue publicada en 1605; la segunda, El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, en 1615. [via]
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El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Jim-Enez-Fajardo, James A. Parr

ISBN 1889818119 (1-889818-11-9)
Hardcover, Pegasus Press

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La novela más moderna, crítica, tierna, mordaz y divertida de la literatura española. Hay Quijotes para lucir en la estantería, Quijotes para investigar, Quijotes para leer por obligación...Esta Edición Cultural está hecha para disfrutar leyendo el Quijote como lo hicieron sus primeros lectores: Porque incluye anotaciones al margen que proporcionan claves para la interpretación del texto sin entorpecer la continuidad de la lectura. Porque incluye 60 temas culturales desarrrollados en formato visual, que permiten acceder de forma rápida a la información del contexto cultural de la época. Un Quijote para leer y entender. [via]
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The First Part of the Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote De La Mancha
by Salvador Dali, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux

ISBN 0896590232 (0-89659-023-2)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press

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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
by Martin C. Battestin, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, O.m Brack, Tobias George Smollett

ISBN 0820324302 (0-8203-2430-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr

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This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory "Life of Cervantes."
Smollett's Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and was for many years the most popular English-language version of Cervantes's masterpiece. However, soon after the start of the nineteenth century, its reputation began to suffer. Rival translators, literary hucksters, and careless scholars initiated or fed a variety of charges against Smollett--even plagiarism. For almost 130 years no publisher risked reprinting it.
Redemption began in 1986, when the distinguished Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, in his foreword to a new (albeit flawed) edition of Smollett's translation, declared it to be "the authentic vernacular version" of Don Quixote in English. Fuentes's opinion was in accord with that of the preeminent Cervantist, Francisco Rodríguez Marín, who decades earlier had declared Smollett's Don Quixote to be his preferred English version.
Martin C. Battestin's introduction discusses the composition, publication, and controversial reception of Smollett's Don Quixote. Battestin's notes identify Smollett's sources in his "Life of Cervantes" and in his commentary, provide cross-references to his other works, and illustrate Smollett's originality or dependence on previous translations. Also included is a complete textual apparatus, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and an appendix comparing a selection of Francis Hayman's original illustrations with the engraved renderings used in the book.
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski

ISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.
Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino

ISBN 0156439611 (0-15-643961-1)
Softcover, Harcourt

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by William Weaver, Italo Calvino

ISBN 0679420258 (0-679-42025-8)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
by Wolfgang Iser

ISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Life & Opinions of Tristam Shandy
by Sterne

ISBN 014024204X (0-14-024204-X)
Softcover, Penguin Uk

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 1404314709 (1-4043-1470-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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The comic masterpiece Tristram Shandy is often regarded as a progenitor of the twentieth century novel. Within the resolutely tangled strands of this narrative is the life, from conception, of a gentleman cursed at birth with the name Tristram. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Lawrence Sterne

ISBN 1846376262 (1-84637-626-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex Laurence Sterne s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne the most liberated spirit of all time . [via]
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 0679723420 (0-679-72342-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne, Howard Anderson

ISBN 0393950344 (0-393-95034-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Adventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha : An Adaptation for Intermediate and Advanced Students
by Marcel C. Andrade

ISBN 0844273619 (0-8442-7361-9)
Softcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

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This edition of "Don Quixote" has been specially adapted and abridged for intermediate and early advanced Spanish-language students. Numerous vocabulary and cultural notes clarify and illuminate the text. In addition, archaic language has been modernized and difficult constructions simplified. [via]
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 1400093007 (1-4000-9300-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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While Don Quixote thinks of himself as a brave knight, his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza, finds out the truth as they battle real and imaginary enemies. [via]
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Don Quijote De La Mancha: Fourth Centenary
by Francisco Rico, Not Available

ISBN 8420467286 (84-204-6728-6)
Hardcover, Alfaguara

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Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of terms that will help readers get to know Cervantes language. This beautiful hardbound edition is 5 x 8 inches, 1360 pages of fine biblical Italian paper, and will be sewn at the spine with fine vegetable thread. This work constitutes, without a doubt, the most complete, serious, high quality commemorative edition.
Having an immediate success when first published 400 years ago, and with its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been recognized as the worlds first modern novel. Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless, destroy the wicked, and win the heart of his beloved Dulcinea. Seated upon his ever so lean horse, and accompanied by the pragmatic and faithful squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain seeking glory and grand adventure. Along the way the duo meet a dazzling assortment of characters whose diverse beliefs and perspectives reveal how reality and imagination are frequently indistinguishable. [via]
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes

ISBN 9706513817 (970-651-381-7)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico

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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha / the Ingenious Nobleman Don Quijote De La Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 848969351X (84-89693-51-X)
Hardcover, Optima Editorial

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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha ; Novelas Ejemplares
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 8471660024 (84-7166-002-4)
Hardcover, Edaf

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Palido Fuego
by Nabokov V.

ISBN 843392060X (84-339-2060-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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Esta es una obra maestra, una novela originalisima, desconcertante y diabolicamente divertida, que figura entre las preferidas de su propio autor. Es la edicion postuma de un largo poema escrito por John Shade, gloria de las letras norteamericanas, un poco antes de ser asesinado. Ademas, un prologo, un corpus de notas y un indice comentado del editor, el profesor Charles Kinbote. Mediante sus entrometidos comentarios sobre el poema, su amistad con Shade los meses anteriores a su muerte, y el lejano reino de Zembla, Kinbote va trazando un hilarante autorretaro, en el que se delata como un individuo intolerante y altivo, excentrico y perverso, un autentico y peligroso chiflado. [via]
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El Quijote Primera Parte
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 847080572X (84-7080-572-X)
Hardcover, La Gaya Ciencia

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Vida Y Opiniones Del Caballero Tristram Shandy / The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

ISBN 8437605032 (84-376-0503-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Don Ciochotae
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Gabriel Rosenstock, Peter O'Leary

ISBN 0861679172 (0-86167-917-2)
Hardcover, Clo Thalboid

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Se Una Notte D'Inverno UN Viaggiatore
by Italo Calvino

ISBN 8804482001 (88-04-48200-1)
Softcover, Mondadori

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