DON QUIXOTE by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA/CHARLES JERVAS/2 BOOKS/1928
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DON QUIXOTE. BY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. TRANSLATED BY CHARLES JERVAS. EDITED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY. IN TWO VOLUMES: VOL. I & II. THE WORLD'S CLASSICS. CXXX. CERVANTES'S DON QUIXOTE. TWO BOOKS. England: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1928 [1907] Scarce. A set of two scarce and fascinating books. Published more than 85 years ago, this set has long been out of print. Such a nice set is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Introduction: "Though apparently unfortunate, the circumstances of Cervantes's obscure but crowded life were an excellent preparation for the work to which he owes his universal fame. Much of his biography may be gathered from his masterpiece. At Alcala de Henares, where the first Polyglot Bible was produced, he breathed the air of scholarship from his cradle, and he dwells with pardonable complacency on Alcala's importance; but, as his parents were too poor and too nomadic to educate him at the celebrated university of his native town, his originality developed untrammeled by dead scholastic tradition or academic routine. His father was a rolling stone--a humble apothecary-surgeon, moving continually from place to place, attending such few patients as luck threw in his way. Cervantes, as he tells us in Don Quixote, could never resist reading
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