Obras inmortales: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha y Novelas ejemplares

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Fortún (Illustrator)

For the first in digital publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete novels of the Spanish master Miguel de Cervantes, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cervantes’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All four novels, with individual contents tables
* LA GALATEA and PERSILES are available in other collection
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Both parts of the famous DON QUIXOTE are fully illustrated with Gustave Doré’s celebrated artwork
* Includes Cervantes’ complete works in the original Spanish – ideal for students
* Special criticism section, with essays and interesting extracts evaluating Cervantes’ contribution to literature
* Features a bonus biography - discover Cervantes’ literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

Please note: no known translations of Cervantes’ plays or poetry are available in the public domain and so they are unable to appear in the collection. To compensate for this, the Spanish works are included.




CONTENTS:

The Novels
LA GALATEA
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
THE SECOND PART OF THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
THE WANDERINGS OF PERSILES AND SIGISMUNDA

The Short Stories
THE EXEMPLARY NOVELS

The Spanish Texts
LIST OF CERVANTES’ WORKS

The Criticism
A LECTURE ON ‘DON QUIXOTE’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
CERVANTES by William Dean Howells
An Extract from ‘THE BODY OF THE NATION’ by Mark Twain
An Extract from ‘HUMOUR’ by G. K. Chesterton
An Extract from ‘READING’ by Virginia Woolf

The Biography
CERVANTES AND DON QUIXOTE by John Ormsby

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Literature

1531 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1615

About the author

Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order.

He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid.
In Esquivias (Province of Toledo), on 12 December 1584, he married the much younger Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (Toledo, Esquivias –, 31 October 1626), daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios. Her uncle Alonso de Quesada y Salazar is said to have inspired the character of Don Quixote. During the next 20 years Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at least twice (1597 and 1602) for irregularities in his accounts. Between 1596 and 1600, he lived primarily in Seville. In 1606, Cervantes settled in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Cervantes died in Madrid on April 23, 1616.
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