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The Resource The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, (electronic resource)
The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, (electronic resource)
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The item The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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- Summary
- Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9781848704749
- Label
- The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote
- Title
- The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote
- Statement of responsibility
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by Edith Grossman ; with a new introduction by Harold Bloom
- Title variation
- Don Quixote
- Subject
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- trueEccentric men
- trueKnights and knighthood
- trueRight and wrong
- trueQuests
- trueElectronic books
- trueIntegrity
- trueSpain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
- Spain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueSpain -- History -- 16th century
- Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction
- trueIdealism
- trueDelusions
- trueAdventurers -- Spain
- trueFriendship
- Don Quixote (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- truePicaresque fiction
- trueClassics
- trueTranslations -- Spanish to English
- trueChivalry
- trueDon Quixote (Fictitious character)
- trueSquires -- Spain
- trueBooks to movies
- trueImagination in men
- true16th century -- 1501 -- 1600
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature
- Summary
- The first European novel, and one of the greatest, is a marvellously comic study of delusion and its consequences: Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha, takes to the road in search of adventure and remains undaunted in the face of repeated disaster
- Award
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- Library Journal Best Books, 2003.
- Great American Read, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 122886
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1547-1616
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- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
- Dewey number
- 863/.3
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1410
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1721-1771
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- Smollett, T.
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- Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
- Knights and knighthood
- Spain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- MWT11392221
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781848704749
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Publisher number
- MWT11392221
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- MWT11392221
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781848704749
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Publisher number
- MWT11392221
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- true16th century -- 1501 -- 1600
- trueAdventurers -- Spain
- trueBooks to movies
- trueChivalry
- trueClassics
- trueDelusions
- trueDon Quixote (Fictitious character)
- Don Quixote (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- trueEccentric men
- trueElectronic books
- trueFriendship
- trueIdealism
- trueImagination in men
- trueIntegrity
- trueKnights and knighthood
- Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction
- truePanza, Sancho (Fictitious character)
- truePicaresque fiction
- trueQuests
- trueRight and wrong
- trueSpain -- History -- 16th century
- trueSpain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
- Spain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueSquires -- Spain
- trueTranslations -- Spanish to English
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