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Title: The Portable Cervantes by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De Cervantes Saavendra, Samuel Putnam ISBN: 0-14-015057-9 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Summary: A note on the edition.
Comment: This is the great Samuel Putnam translation of "Don Quixote," plus two of Cervantes' "Novelas ejemplares": "The Colloquy of the Dogs" and "Rinconete and Cortadillo." Putnam's is arguably the best modern translation of the "Quixote": straight-forward and rendered in plain English. Some of the "classic" translations that preceded it are kind of stilted and hard to read. Jarvis' (1740?) and Ormsby's (1880?) -- among others -- are actually still in print, so watch what you buy.
Putnam translation's is available in many editions. "The Portable Cervantes" is an abridged version of it. Like all abridgements, it has its advantages and disadvantages. Whether Cervantists want to admit it or not, "Don Quixote" contains a lot of lengthy and tiring passages that really aren't very relevant to the novel as a whole. Many readers are turned away from the book by its sheer size.
If you're a lazy student, this edition is for you. Putnam frequently summarizes ten or twenty pages from the original in a couple of paragraphs. Usually, this is OK. But he also summarizes some of the more important sections of the book, like the entire story, "El curioso impertinente" (which in the original amounts to over fifty pages). This can be annoying. Having read "El curioso impertinente" both in the original and in Putnam's summary, I can't say I would have done the same thing.
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Title: The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fitzgerald, D. S. Carne-Ross ISBN: 0374525749 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 05 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein ISBN: 0385484917 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 18 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Mouse Tales: A Behind-The-Ears Look at Disneyland by David Koenig, Art Linkletter ISBN: 0964060566 Publisher: Bonaventure Pr Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0140143459 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by LAURA HILLENBRAND ISBN: 0449005615 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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