{"product_id":"don-quixote-de-la-mancha-modern-library-0679602860","title":"Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0679602860\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" 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 firstmodern 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 butCervantes.\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51881241968928,"sku":"NEW0679602860","price":46.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81Nk5PhRpOL.jpg?v=1781819406","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/don-quixote-de-la-mancha-modern-library-0679602860","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}