A MAN CALLED CERVANTES—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). In 50 words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: “A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, ...
HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) —Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as “the World—that ...
Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of ...
Ed Maggs is managing director of Maggs Bros antiquarian booksellers - Copyright AFP CHRIS RADBURN Ed Maggs examines a shelf of leather-bound antique books that his ...
A new translation of Don Quixote. Edith Grossman’s new translation of Don Quixote is a pleasure to read, not a chore. Easy, vernacular, high-conversational in tone, written in the long sentences of an ...
As a sixty-nine-year-old man going back to school at Duke, one of the essential joys of life has been reading. And Don ...
In previous posts, I argued that two of the greatest classics of English literature, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swifts Gulliver’s Travels, owed much of their remarkable success to ...
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