Don Quixote (is a very big book) is an audacious attempt by Downey to abridge two books published in 1605 and 1615 into an ...

A MAN CALLED CERVANTES—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). In 50 words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: “A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, ...

The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance is turning 400. By some accounts, the first part of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s masterpiece, was available in Valladolid by Christmas Eve 1604, although ...

HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) —Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as “the World—that ...

This weekend, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) presents Don Quixote, a captivating musical journey into the world of dreams, fantasies, adventure, and romance. The BPO’s principal cellist, ...

Americans, according to the Gallup Poll, read fewer books in 2021 than at any point in the past 30 years. “Bestselling books have never been shorter,” an analysis by the site Wordsrated concluded in ...

Ed Maggs is managing director of Maggs Bros antiquarian booksellers - Copyright AFP CHRIS RADBURN Ed Maggs examines a shelf of leather-bound antique books that his ...

Aejandro Amenabar's new film portrays pre-fame scribe Miguel Cervantes as a Spanish hostage in a 16th-century Algiers — a ...

Who has the world's largest private collection of Don Quixote books, artwork and other memorabilia? An El Paso man who is a Don Quixote scholar says he is. "I have in my collection, 263 different ...

It takes a certain kind of courage to tap into one’s own history to write like Ana Veciana-Suarez. It requires looking at your life honestly — it requires not looking away. The novelist and a ...