Category: Biographies
Three hundred years ago this month the First Part of _El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha_ was published in Madrid, and the world was made the richer by a book which will last until “the silver chord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken”; until the earth relapses i...
The inadequacy of the Spanish garrison left for the protection of Tunis, and the growing boldness and activity of the combined Moors and Turks, called for prompt measures; and,...
3. Part 3All sorts of conjectures as to the identity of the lady have been made; but, as Mr. Kelly, with his characteristic common-sense declares, “nothing whatever is known of her; noth...
6. Part 6in its inspiration and execution. Avellaneda, whoever the man was who clothed his identity beneath this sobriquet, was a person of some literary talent, but his malice outstripp...
5. Part 5“It is quite otherwise with scholars, not only those who follow the lead, but others also, who all either by hook or by crook get a livelihood; so that though the soldier’s suff...
4. Part 4The exact date on which Cervantes made his home in La Mancha, and the circumstances which governed his change of habitation, are unknown. That he had resigned, or lost, his post...
9. Part 91. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, 1605. 4to. [Registered in the “Colegio de la Madre de Dios ... Universidad de Alcala,” ... 1st December, 1604. “Por Jua...
1. Part 1Three hundred years ago this month the First Part of _El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha_ was published in Madrid, and the world was made the richer by a book which w...
10. Part 10113. The Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote.... A new translation from the Original of 1605 and 1615, by Alex. James Duffield. London, 1881. Three vols. 8vo. Dedicated to W. E. Glads...
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