This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. TO the world Cervantes is a name for ever connected with Don Quixote. Book and author are so closely related that it is not possible to study them apart. Just as Don Quixote was the reflection of the man Cervantes, so it is in the record of the life of Cervantes that we may find the true ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. TO the world Cervantes is a name for ever connected with Don Quixote. Book and author are so closely related that it is not possible to study them apart. Just as Don Quixote was the reflection of the man Cervantes, so it is in the record of the life of Cervantes that we may find the true interpretation of the story of Don Quixote. What need of a key to the mystery which has exercised a thousand pens, native and foreign--namely, the object with which Don Quixote was written--when we have before us the open chapter of the life of Cervantes? What need of any mystery at all, when the author so distinctly declares that his book is so clear that children, grown men, and greybeards equally love, comprehend, and enjoy it? Let those who insist upon a secret purpose, who will not believe the author in his express declaration that he meant only a book of entertainment, continue to hug their theories of a recondite inner meaning. That Don Quixote is a "satire" a great many are convinced--of the immortal herd of those who cannot conceive how any man should be guilty of humour and yet intend no malice. Charles V., Philip II., the Duke of Lerma, Ignatius Loyola, down to the recalcitrant cousin of Dona Catalina, and the crazy hidalgo of Argamasilla, these are among the originals whom the shrewder sort of interpreters, from the Jesuit / / c 166 LIFE OF Rapin down to the late Consul Rawdon Brown, of Venice, have detected in Cervantes' story. Of such theories it is only needful to say that those who can suppose that Cervantes meant, in painting Don Quixote, to revenge himself on any enemy, are beyond the reach of conversion. Scarcely less extravagant have been some of the later theories, which aim at the exaltation of Cervantes' work, and are...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth-bound, 8vo, gilt lettering on backstrip, heavy shelfwear, slight tear in backstrip, bumped corners, large library sticker on front cover, loose binding. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
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