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The life of Cervantes
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Three hundred years ago this month the First Part of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha was published in Madrid, and the world was made the richer by a book which will last until "the silver chord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken"; until the earth relapses into its original silence and language is no more spoken or read. It is somewhat late to weave new laurels for the brow of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - the last word on Don Quixote has been spoken. The great contemporary of Shakespeare has long since come into his own among the world's heroes; no country has forborne to do him honour; no literature is complete that does not contain a translation of his book.
But while the career of Cervantes forms as eventful and varied a history as that of the Knight-errant of La Mancha himself - Don Quixote might even be read as the sequel of its author's life - the number of biographies of the Spanish writer in the English tongue is curiously limited. It is ten years since Mr. Henry Edward Watts - whose recent demise will be regretted by all Cervantists in this country - issued his new and revised edition of the Life and Works of Cervantes, and the scholarly and deeply-interesting Life by Mr. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, Cervantes most brilliant and discriminating biographer, is already a rare and almost unobtainable work.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Three hundred years ago this month the First Part of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha was published in Madrid, and the world was made the richer by a book which will last until "the silver chord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken"; until the earth relapses into its original silence and language is no more spoken or read. It is somewhat late to weave new laurels for the brow of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - the last word on Don Quixote has been spoken. The great contemporary of Shakespeare has long since come into his own among the world's heroes; no country has forborne to do him honour; no literature is complete that does not contain a translation of his book.
But while the career of Cervantes forms as eventful and varied a history as that of the Knight-errant of La Mancha himself - Don Quixote might even be read as the sequel of its author's life - the number of biographies of the Spanish writer in the English tongue is curiously limited. It is ten years since Mr. Henry Edward Watts - whose recent demise will be regretted by all Cervantists in this country - issued his new and revised edition of the Life and Works of Cervantes, and the scholarly and deeply-interesting Life by Mr. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, Cervantes most brilliant and discriminating biographer, is already a rare and almost unobtainable work.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
138 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 1978
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Albert Frederick Calvert
309 books1 followerAlbert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946), was an English author, traveller and mining engineer
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