DON QUIXOTE: Miguel De Cervantes FAUX LEATHER 1930 SET HB 2 Volumes De La Mancha
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VERY GOOD CONDITION This sale is for a vintage hardback COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET entitled “ Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha ,” by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra , translated from the Spanish into English by Charles Jarvis, with a frontispiece portrait of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (Vol I) and a frontispiece depicting Don Quixote Knighted in the Inn (Vol II). The set was published by Odhams Press Limited, of London , is undated, but is circa 1930’s. This is the classic parody of the chivalrous life - an eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past. Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retired country gentleman nearing fifty years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper. While mostly a rational man of sound reason, reading books of chivalry (romances), in excess has had a profound effect on him, leading to the distortion of his perception and the wavering of his mental faculties. In essence, he believes every word of these books of chivalry to be true, though for the most part, the content of these books is clearly fiction. Otherwise, his wits, in regards to everything other than chivalry, are intact. Quijano decides to go out as a wandering knight-errant in search of adventure. He dons an old suit of armour, renames
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