The Man Who Invented Fiction : How Cervantes Ushered In The Modern World
de Egginton, William
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1408843846
- ISBN 13
- 9781408843840
- Librería
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Bloomsbury. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (2016). Hardcover. 1408843846 . No signatures. 5mm chips to top corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition. xxiii, [1], 239, [2], [7 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with metallic red-bronze lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm. Illustrated. "In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spains wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. In Cervantes time, fiction was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or poetry which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman, addled from reading too many books on chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off to put the world to rights. The book was hugely entertaining, broke the existing rules, devised a new set and, in the process, created a new, modern hybrid form we know today as the novel. 'The Man Who Invented Fiction' explores Cervantess life and the world he lived in, showing how his life and influences converged in his work, and how his work especially Don Quixote radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it." .
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- Librería
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 25782
- Título
- The Man Who Invented Fiction : How Cervantes Ushered In The Modern World
- Autor
- Egginton, William
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1408843846
- ISBN 13
- 9781408843840
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- (2016)
- Palabras clave
- 1408843846
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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