don quixote

"When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha. They begin to reimagine Don Quixote-the story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain who traveled around trying to right the world's wrongs-as the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn"--Amazon.

A retelling of Miguel de Cervantes's classic story of a Spanish country gentleman and his friend who set out to right wrongs and punish evil.

Presents a biographical essay on Miguel de Cervantes and eight works of criticism on his masterpiece, "Don Quixote, " discussing such topics as the work's origins, the character Dulcinea, the history of Spain's libraries, the use of books and literature in the novel, and the novel's "linguistic perspectivism, " and includes "self-portraits" from two of Cervantes' prologues.

A lively and penetrating study of the real meaning of Cervantes' masterpiece.

A study of the novel Don Quixote first published in the 16th century and in the opinion of many critics, the prototype of the European novel.

Presents 190 illustrations by Gustave Dore that were inspired by the novel "Don Quixote", with sketches of the story's characters, settings, and events.

Contains 20th-century criticism on major works including critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, and chronology of the author's life.