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"In seventheenth-century Valladolid, Spain's new capital, Miguel Cervantes is busy writing his comic masterpiece, Don Quixote. Not that the women in his household are impressed: he's never made a decent living from any of his scribblings. At least he has a supporter in the merchant Pedro, who has an eye for a potential money-spinner. But it is Pedro who inadvertently upsets Cervantes's progress with his novel - by revealing that Don Quixote is not a figment of his imagination but a real person, who proceeds to wreak as much havoc as his fictional alter ego." "This is the first blow to strike Cervantes. As instalments of Don Quixote circulate and prove immediately popular, he unwittingly gains some powerful enemies, including the poet Ongora, desperate for a sinecure at the new emperor's court, and the bereaved, beautiful Duchess of Alcanares, who is inveigled into the poet's envious schemes." "This sparkling tale of crazed knights, thwarted love and literary rivalry is set against the background of a mighty empire, suffering from a century of reckless wars and with a ruling hierarchy stultified by patronage and ritual. Peopled with an engagingly idiosyncratic cast that ranges from

Author

Branston, Julian

Publisher

Hodder Education Group

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780340822821

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction