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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

About 4,691 pages (1,407,258 words) in 75 products

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Quotations
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Don Quixote Quotes
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don...


Project Gutenberg eBook
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Don Quixote eBook
379,823 words, approx. 1,266 pages
The complete online text of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.


Author Biography

Name: Miguel de Cervantes, Saavedra
Birth Date: 1547
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Place of Death: Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist

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Biography of Miguel de Cervantes
3081 words, approx. 10.3 pages
Through his authorship of Don Quixote and other lesser known works, Miguel de Cervantes has had an inestimable impact on the development of modern fiction. Don Quixote represents the first extended prose narrative in European literature in which characte...
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Biography of Miguel de Cervantes, Saavedra
2248 words, approx. 7.5 pages
The Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) is the greatest novelist of the Spanish language. His masterpiece, "Don Quixote," is one of the most important and influential books in the history of the novel. Miguel de Cervantes was born in...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Don Quixote
102 words, approx. 1 pages
novel published in two parts (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes, one of the most widely read classics of Western literature. Originally conceived as a comic satire against the chivalric romances then in literary vogue, it describes...
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Don Quixote Summary
5,846 words, approx. 20 pages
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in 1547 in the university town of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, to a struggling barber-surgeon’s family. Unable to afford enrollment in the university, Cervantes...
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The Adventures of Don Quixote Summary
3,387 words, approx. 11 pages
The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra lived through two distinct periods in Spanish history. The first was a "golden age" of military success, national pride, and intellectual freedom; the second, a...
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Don Quixote Information
6,320 words, approx. 21 pages
Don Quijote de la Mancha (IPA: [doŋkiˈxoteð̞elaˈmantʃa], but see spelling and pronunciation below), fully titled El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") is an early novel written by Spanish...


News and Journals
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Notes
Don Quixote.
03/01/1996: 1,172 words, approx. 4 pages
Far from being a culturally disengaged body of musical works, Roberto Gerhard's music is a rich and complex web of cultural references encompassing history, myth, literature, folklore, and contemporary social issues. L'alta naixenca del Rei En Jaume (1932) refers to James I, the...
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Filipinas
Don Quixote?
05/01/2007: 455 words, approx. 2 pages
Dr. Martin Bautista, a gastroenterologist who, along with his doctor-wife, practiced for 10 years in Guymon, Oklahoma, last year decided it was time to go back to the country of their birth, to do their part in making things better there as well as...
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The New York Observer
Farrell's Revival of Don Q, Balanchine's Gift to His Muse
7/10/2005: 1,700 words, approx. 6 pages
George Balanchine's Don Quixote-that ambitious, mysterious work that fascinated and confused us all back when it was made in 1965-has just been restaged, by Suzanne Farrell, for the first time since it disappeared from the repertory in 1978. When it was made, Balanchine was 61,...
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AP News
Antonio Gamoneda wins Cervantes Prize
4/24/2007: 377 words, approx. 1 pages
Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda has received the Cervantes Prize, drawing parallels between his childhood in poverty and the hardship endured by the writer whose name adorns Spain's top literature award.Gamoneda, 76, bowed his head as King Juan Carlos placed a medallion around his neck in...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John J. Allen
11,880 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Allen examines the relationship between the reader and narrator in Don Quixote.
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Critical Essay by Ruth El Saffar
10,695 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, El Saffar examines how Don Quixote is built around the tripartite nature of its characters as they function at different points in the roles of character, narrator, and spectator.
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Critical Essay by Margaret Church
9,463 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Church notes the thematic and structural connections between Don Quixote and other works of fiction, suggests a psychological basis of the novel's structure, and discusses the difference between the 1605 and 1615 portions of the work.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 98%
The Effects of Style in Don Quixote
2,527 words, approx. 8 pages
The following presents a very detailed paper of the style used by cervantes in writing the book "Don Quixote."
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Essay Grade: 88%
Imagination in Don Quixote
938 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes a quote by Miguel Cervantes from his novel, Don Quixote. Describes how the quote relates to the novel Don Quixote and the film based upon it, Man of La Mancha.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Don Quixote
840 words, approx. 3 pages
Reviews the book Don Quixote by Cervantes. Describes why it has become a classic. Provides a text summary.
 


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