Exemplary Novels

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486451526
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Exemplary Novels/Tres Novelas Ejemplares written by Miguel de Cervantes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature, comes this trio of novellas: "La gitanilla," a gypsy romance; "El coloquio de los perros," a dialogue between two dogs; and "Rinconete y Cortadillo," a day in the underworld of 18th-century Seville. Introduction, new English translation, and notes.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140442480
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Stories written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1972 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.

Author : Miguel de Unamuno
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Exemplary Novels written by Miguel de Unamuno and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No Spanish voice was heard during the fifty years of his active intellectual life which could compare with his in the strength of his passion nor in the profound seriousness with which he challenged every complacency...The central idea in all his fiction is the struggle to create faith from doubt and ethics from inner strife.'

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deceitful Marriage written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1963 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was the Exemplary Novels, published three years before his death ... that established Cervantes' literary reputation among the intellectuals of his time. These picaresque stories ring with racy idiom and peasant humor, and with explicit characterizations that show how well he knew the speech and folkways and psychology of the common people. Among the Exemplary Novels presented here are three of his most famous ones: The Deceitful Marriage, a cynical tale of Spanish domestic life, merciless in its realism, pungent in its humor; The Little Gypsy, a love story of a high-spirited girl whose haunting counterpart has reappeared in the works of Goethe and Victor Hugo; and The Dogs' Colloquy, judged by many critics to be the greatest short story ever written."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226768678
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion written by María de Zayas y Sotomayor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Novels written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Exemplary Novels written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Egginton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570247
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Invented Fiction written by William Egginton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heroic history of novel-reading itself.” --The Atlantic In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work, and how his work--especially Don Quixote--radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics, and science, and how the world today would be unimaginable without it. William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552086172
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Author : María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066717
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novelas Amorosas Y Ejemplares written by María de Zayas y Sotomayor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five men and five women entertain their hostess with stories exploring some aspect of enchantment or love between a handsome gallant and a lovely lady. The sharp contrast between the women's and men's stories transmits a subtle, often ironic, feminism.