Lectures on Don Quixote

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Stated First Edition. Large quarto in yellow boards, gilt titles; dust jacket; 219 pp: facsimiles; 26 cm About fine in very good dust jacket; clean, smooth boards; pages crisp; binding tight; dust jacket shows light wrinkling and closed tears to back and front edges, jacket now housed in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151495955

Edited by Fredson Bowers | Preface by Guy Davenport | Contents: Introduction -- Two portraits: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza -- Structural matters -- Cruelty and mystification -- The chroniclers theme, Dulcinea, and death -- Victories and defeats / "The famous writer challenges popular views of Cervantes' classic masterpiece in nine discourses based on lectures given at Harvard from 1951-1952." —Publisher / Spanish fiction -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Spanish fiction -- Classical period. Aufsatzsammlung Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 Don Quixote. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel ((de)). Don Quijote. / **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**