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The twelve novellas gathered together in this volume reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Cervantes published his book in Spain in 1613. The assemblage of unique characters (eloquent witches, talking dogs, Gypsy orphans, and an array of others), the twisting plots, and the moral heart at the core of each tale proved irresistible to his enthusiastic audience. Then as now, Cervantes's readers find pure entertainment in his pages, but also a subtle artistry that invites deeper investigation. Edith Grossman's eagerly awaited translation brings this timeless classic to English-language readers in an edition that will delight those already familiar with Cervantes's work as well as those about to be enchanted fro the first time. Roberto González Echevarria's illuminating introduction to the volume serves as both an appreciation of Cervantes's brilliance and a critical guide to the novellas and their significance.
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Readers, Spanish language, Spanish fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, Spanish Short stories, Translations into French, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Translations into English, Spanish language materials, 18.32 Spanish literature, Classical period, Romance literature, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Pq6324 .a1 2001, 863/.3Places
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Novelas Ejemplares: 2
June 30, 2005, Ediciones Catedra
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Novelas Ejemplares: 1
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Selections from the Novelas ejemplares: La gitanilla and El licenciado Vidriera
1918, H. Holt and Company
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La Ilustre Fregona. El Licenciado Vidriera: two of the Novelas ejemplares
1909, University Press
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Novelas exemplares: Tomo 3
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Translation from Spanish of: Novelas ejemplares.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv).
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Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) blend picaresque narrative, comic irony, moral ambiguity, and sheer mirth. A nobleman undergoes a change of identity to prove his love for a mere gypsy girl; two young delinquents discover a guild of criminals which models itself on a religious brotherhood; a jealous old man imprisons his child-bride in a house which conjures up both convent and seraglio; a law graduate goes mad and believes he is made of glass, and most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize on the foibles of human society in a ward full of syphilitics. By combining the extraordinary and the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigor of Cervantes's wit and make available two rarely printed gems, "The Illustrious Kitchen Maid" and "The Power of Blood." - Publisher.
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