Don QuixoteCervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Don Quixote
A country gentleman reinvents himself as a knight and sets out with Sancho Panza. John Ormsby’s English translation follows their misadventures through both parts of Cervantes’s novel.
From the English edition
The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Clark in his edition states that, “The English text of ‘Don Quixote’ adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux.” See in the introduction below John Ormsby’s critique of both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in…
Edition and source
Project Gutenberg eBook 996 · English
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