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Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel De Saavedra; Montgomery, James Houston is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Don Quixote about?

From Publishers Weekly There would seem to be little reason for yet another translation of Don Quixote. Translated into English some 20 times since the novel appeared in two parts in 1605 and 1615, and at least five times in the last half-century, it is currently available in multiple editions (the most recent is the 1999 Norton Critical Edition translated by Burton Raffel). Yet Grossman bravely attempts a fresh rendition of the adventures of the intrepid knight Don Quixote and his humble squire Sancho Panza. As the respected translator of many of Latin America's finest writers (among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa), she is well suited to the task, and her translation is admirably readable and consistent while managing to retain the vigor, sly humor and colloquial playfulness of the Spanish. Erring on the side of the literal, she isn't afraid to turn out clunky sentences; what she loses in smoothness and elegance she gains in vitality. The text is free of archaisms the contemporary reader will rarely stumble over a word and the footnotes (though rather erratically supplied) are generally helpful. Her version easily bests Raffel's ambitious but e

Who reads Don Quixote?

Author

Cervantes, Miguel De Saavedra; Montgomery, James Houston

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

1864

Language

EN

ISBN

9781434000392

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14