cervantes saavedra, miguel de

Compilation of twelve short stories by the author written between 1590 and 1612, including the story of a gypsy girl named Preciosa in "La gitanilla" and the story of a boy who drinks a potion which renders him to think he's made of glass, in "El licenciado Vidriera.".

"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.

The literary character Don Quixote tells about Miguel de Cervantes, the writer of his story, describing Cervantes' life and accomplishments.

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 collection of illustrated poems about the childhood of Miguel de Cervantes and his character Don Quixote.

A collection of illustrated poems about the childhood of Miguel de Cervantes and his character Don Quixote.

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.

Follows the trials and tribulations of Cervantes just as he begins to enjoy success with his comic masterpiece, discovers that his fictional hero has an all-too-real counterpart, and falls in love with an unattainable duchess.