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    Handbook To The Legacy & Odyssey Of Don Quixote: Everything The Armchair Academic Needs To Know About The Greatest Novel Ever Written
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    Handbook To The Legacy & Odyssey Of Don Quixote: Everything The Armchair Academic Needs To Know About The Greatest Novel Ever Written

    By Mark Colenutt

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    Don Quixote is considered by the literally great and good to be the best novel ever written. It holds the record for the most translations, relegating even the Bible to second best. It is considered the first modern novel and there are those that commit themselves to read it every year. So what is it this book contains in its ageing pages that makes it so exceptional and has provoked such an earnest reaction for over four centuries?

    This unique handbook, therefore, is for the culturally curious, for those who wish to grapple with the greater picture of world literature and its universal meaning. If Don Quixote is on your ‘Bucket List’ but you cannot spare the time to cross it off by reading the whole tome, then this factual edifice is your short cut to artistic salvation.
    It is an illustrated publication that will save you trekking through Spain’s badlands and provide you with a broad image of the man, the novel and its principal characters before delving into the wider philosophical message that it safeguards for all humanity. Despite this, if you are still keen to make the trip to Spain in person, then this volume ends with a personal tour of the captivating Quixote Route of La Mancha.

    By the time you come to turn the last page of this book your reading will only urge you to pick up the original manuscript and release your imagination upon the barren plains of late medieval Spain. Once you find yourself confronted by Cervantes’ superlatively famous first line, you will have been adeptly prepared before you venture off into Cervantes’ masterpiece and head for the windmills on the horizon of Old Castile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Colenutt
    Release dateAug 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301901821
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    Handbook To The Legacy & Odyssey Of Don Quixote: Everything The Armchair Academic Needs To Know About The Greatest Novel Ever Written
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    Mark Colenutt

    Born 1970 in Plymouth, Devon and eventually washed up on Spanish shores. I took root in Madrid after four years in London at teaching college. Soon after that, I ventured further south settling in Seville in the old gypsy district of Triana. Eleven years later and it was time to move north again and to the town of Girona, an hour and a half from Barcelona and nestled in a politer landscape. A teacher by training, an MA in history, two published titles to date, a further 3 books in the editing phase and a novel in the making. My interests primarily revolve around history and Spain, while my pipeline-novel will be a complete break but something I have coveted forever. I am presently engaged in a historical title concerning the British Raj and then I will return to completing the editing of my cultural title on Europe's most colourful city: Seville. That is all till now, hopefully there will be more to come, readership willing.

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