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Title: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Magda Bogin, Manual Boix, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Manuel Boix ISBN: 1556702019 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Pub. Date: September, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45
Rating: 4
Summary: Recommended
Comment: Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote obviously centers around the title character, Don Quixote. Quixote was originally known as Alonso Quixano, La Manchan noble, who was content with reading stories of knighthood and chivalry and tending to his estate. Eventually, after reading these books, he decided it is his responsibility to set out with someone else in his village (Sancho Panza, his squire) to right the wrongs of people across Spain. Sancho Panza seems to be a very grounded person, but he admires Don Quixote so much his good sense disappears. In the beginning, Panza agreed to leave his family and travel with Quixote only because he promised Panza he would become the governor of the first island they came to; when this doesn't happen, Panza doesn't leave because he loves to company of the eccentric Quixote.
All the adventures Don Quixote goes on are in the name of his love Dulcinia, and although she never makes an appearance in the book she seems to embody chivalric ideals. Unfortunately for our protagonists, Don Quixote often has confusion with the real and imaginary, mistaking inns for castles, grazing sheep for conflicting armies, windmills for enemy enchanters and traveling monks for wizards transporting a princess against her will. All mistakes are blamed on a powerful necromancer, who is Don Quixote's mortal enemy (since all knights have them.) Although Quixote is mocked by many, in the end they mimic his restlessness and discomfort for what is considered "normal" in society.
Overall, I'm glad I read Don Quixote even though it was longer then I bargained for. The book helped me get a better picture of what life was like in Spain during the Renaissance period. I learned simple things like there actually were windmills in other parts of Europe besides the Netherlands and more complex things like exactly what chivalry and its ideals consist of.
Rating: 4
Summary: Conflict between Reality and Fantasy
Comment: In the adventure novel of "Don Quixote", a man named Alanso Quixano, dreams of becoming a knight. The only problem is that there haven't been any knights around for many years. Into the mind of Alanso comes the character named Don Quixote of La Mancha, a knight. Along with his squire Sancho Panza, and his trusty horse Rocinante, he sets out on an adventure, honoring and telling of Don Quixote's love, Dolcinea del Toboso. Along his way, Don Quixote mistakes fantasy for reality. Don Quixote fights for the honor of his love, Dolcinea. Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra establishes a great deal of honor throughout book. Don Quixote, is honoring his love for Dolcinea del Toboso by fighing every battle for her honor.
Cervantes establishes the theme of differences between reality and fantasy throughout the book. In Alanso's mind what is happening to him is happening to Don Quixote. Alasno can't decipher the difference between reality and fantasy. All the other characters in the book know the difference between reality and fantasy and know Alanso is living a fantasy. Through this contrast between reality and fantasy we discover that sometimes we have to fight no matter what the consequence.
Rating: 5
Summary: Greatest book ever written
Comment: If you could have one book on a desert island this would be it.
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Title: Don Quixote (Cliffs Notes) by Marianne Sturman ISBN: 0822004151 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: July, 1964 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Canterbury Tales, in Modern English by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill ISBN: 0140440224 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Everyman's Library, 183) by Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum, Alighieri Dante, Dante Alighieri, Peter Armour ISBN: 0679433139 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds ISBN: 0140444173 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Decameron : Selected Tales by Bob Blaisdell, Giovanni Boccaccio ISBN: 0486411133 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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