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  2. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.

  3. John Ormsby (translator) - Wikipedia

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    John Ormsby (1829–1895) was a nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish translator.He is most famous for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time.

  4. The Return of Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    The Return of Don Quixote is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. Published in 1927 by Chatto & Windus in London and by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York, it was his final novel. By 1963, when it was reprinted by Darwen Finlayson, it was considered one of his lesser-known works.

  5. J. M. Cohen - Wikipedia

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    In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation. His workmanlike and accurate translation of Don Quixote, published in 1950, has been highly praised, and remained in print until 2000. [3]

  6. List of Don Quixote characters - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote's housekeeper, who carries out the book-burning with alacrity and relish. The innkeeper who puts Don Quixote up for the night and agrees to dub him a "knight," partly in jest and partly to get Don Quixote out of his inn more quickly, only for Don Quixote to return later, with a large number of people in tow.

  7. Samuel Putnam - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote de la Mancha translated by Samuel Putnam, with a "Translator's Introduction" by Mr. Putnam (New York: Modern Library, 1998).; The Works of Aretino: Letters and Sonnets: Translated into English from the original Italian, with a critical and biographical essay by Samuel Putnam (New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1926, 1933).

  8. Juan de la Cuesta - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the first (1605) edition of Cervantes' Don Quijote. Juan de la Cuesta (?-1627) was a Spanish printer known for printing (not publishing) the first editions of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) [ 1 ] and the Novelas ejemplares (1613), by Miguel de Cervantes , as well as the works of other leading figures of Spain's Golden Age , such ...

  9. Sancho Panza - Wikipedia

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    Sancho Panza (Spanish: [ˈsantʃo ˈpanθa]) is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit.