Miguel de Cervantes Books In Order

Novels

  1. Don Quixote (1605)

Omnibus

  1. Exemplary Novels (1613)

Collections

  1. Interludes (1615)
  2. The Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1901)
  3. Portable Cervantes (1976)
  4. Stories by Cervantes (2004)
  5. Exemplary Stories (2020)

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Miguel de Cervantes Books Overview

Don Quixote

Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being,’ said novelist Milan Kundera. ‘And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?’ 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 travel through sixteenth century Spain. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator. The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. From Milan Kundera: ‘Cervan tes is the founder of the Modern Era…
. The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes.’ Lionel Trilling observed: ‘It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.’ Vladmir Nabo kov wrote: ‘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.’ And V. S. Pritchett observed: ‘Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe…
. The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story telling.’The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library’s seventy fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world’s best books, at the best prices.

Exemplary Novels

First published in 1992, this prestigious collection of all twelve Novelas ejemplares is now available in a single volume edition, with updated introductions, translations and a new bibliography. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes. Barry Ife’s authoritative General Introduction highlighting the characteristics of Cervantes’s fiction, specific issues raised by the Exemplary Novels as a collection, Cervantes’s interest in the mixing of genre and in the virtuoso aspects of storytelling is re written and expanded for this new edition, which remains the only complete edition of the Novelas available in English. ‘Hidden among the many pages of preliminary matter which prefaced the first edition of Cervantes’s Exemplary Novels is a short, enigmatic prologue addressed to the reader. It is the most eloquent of all the introductions with which Cervantes customarily prefaced his works, and its witty and self confident tone make it a fitting introduction to one of the most original, entertaining, and provocative collections of short novels in any language. He gives four main reasons why his readers should take them seriously, though not too seriously: they are harmless entertainment, contain profitable examples, each of them is Cervantes’s own work, and they all contain a hidden mystery. These four claims have formed the basis of most subsequent criticism of the collection, and they continue to fascinate readers and critics to this day. ‘ Barry Ife, from the General Introduction, 1992 edition.

Portable Cervantes

Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam’s acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two ‘Exemplary Novels, ‘Rinconete and Cortadillo’ and ‘Man of Glass’; and ‘Foot in the Stirrup,’ Cervantes’s extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda.

Stories by Cervantes

CONTENTS Summarised Chronology Introductory Essay The Spanish Ladie The Force of Blood The Liberall Lover

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