The complete exemplary novels = Novelas ejemplares / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; edited by Barry Ife and Jonathan Thacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Contributor:

Ife, B. W.

Thacker, Jonathan.

Series:

Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics

Standardized Title:

Novelas ejemplares. English & Spanish

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Translations into English.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 709pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

New edition / as a single volume.

Other Title:

Novelas ejemplares

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow, [2013]

Language Note:

Text in English and Spanish.

Summary:

First published in 1992, this prestigious collection of all twelve Novelas ejemplares is now available in a single volume edition, with updated introductions, translations and a new bibliography. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation, and notes. Barry Ife's authoritative general introduction - which highlights the general characteristics of Cervantes' fiction, specific issues raised by the Exemplary Novels as a collection, Cervantes' interest in the mixing of genre and in the virtuoso aspects of storytelling -- is re-written and expanded for this new edition, which remains the only complete edition of the Novelas available in English.

Contents:

Note to the Second Edition

General Introduction / Barry Ife

Preliminaries

Prologue to the reader (Prólogo al lector)

The little gypsy girl (La gitanilla)

The generous lover (El amante liberal)

Rinconete and Cortadillo (Rinconete y Cortadillo)

The English Spanish girl (La española inglesa)

The glass graduate (El licenciado Vidriera)

The power of blood (La fuerza de la sangre)

The jealous old man from extremadura (El celoso extremeño)

The illustrious kitchen-maid (La ilustre fregona)

The two damsels (Las dos doncellas)

Lady Cornelia (La señora Cornelia)

The deceitful marriage (El casamiento engañoso) and The dialogue of the dogs (El coloquio de los perros).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0856687693

9780856687693

085668774X

9780856687747

OCLC:

865022132