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012215
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Don Quijote
/ Cervantes, Miguel de; Aguilar, de Agustin Sanchez
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1996
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Barcelona, Vicens Vives, 1996.
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159pBrown spine
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In the sixteenth century, romances of chivalry, written in absurd, exaggerated style, were extremely popular in Spain.
A dignified gentleman by the name of Quixada, who lived between Aragon and Castile, went crazy over these foolish books, which he spent all his substance in buying. His brain was stuffed with enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, magic salves, complaints, amours, torments, giants, castles, captured maidens, gallant rescues, and all sorts of impossible deeds of daring, which seemed to him as true as the most authentic history. Every innkeeper was a magnate; every mule-driver a cavalier.
He decided that for his own honor and for the service of the world he must turn knight errant and jaunt through the world, redress- ing wrongs, rescuing captured princesses, and at last winning the imperial scepter of Trapizonda.
He changed his name to Don Quixote de la Mancha, got himself dubbed knight by a rascally publican whose inn he thought was a castle with four turrets crowned with pinnacles of glistening silver. In order to carry a full purse he sold one of his houses, mortgaged another, and borrowed a goodly sum from a friend. When his practical house-keeper and his pretty niece, together with his neighbors, the barber and the curate, thought to cure him by burning his books, he was persuaded that his library had been carried away by a necromancer, and became crazier than ever. He scoured up a rusty suit of mail which had belonged to one of his ancestors, mended the broken helmet with a pasteboard vizor, patched with thin iron plates, and thus accoutered set forth on his old hack Rocinante, whose ribs stuck out like the skeleton of a ship, accompanied by a rustic named Sancho Panza, persuaded into serving as his squire.
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9788431676377 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00396 | 863.6/CER | Main | On Shelf | General | Spanish |
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004585
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Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions, 1993.
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xvi, 765pBlue Spine
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Wordsworth Classics
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Story of the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.
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9781853260360 Pb.
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| 005953 | 862.3/CER | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019609
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London, Vintage,
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434pBlue spine
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The Moor’s Last Sigh is a novel about modern India. Its hero is Moraes Zogoiby of Bombay, nicknamed by his mother “the Moor.” But the famous sigh to which the title refers was breathed five centuries ago, in 1492, when Muhammad XI, last sultan of Andalusia, bade farewell to his kingdom, bringing to an end Arab-Islamic dominance in Iberia. Fourteen ninety-two was the year, too, when the Jews of Spain were offered the choice of baptism or expulsion; and when Columbus, financed by the royal conquerors of the Moor, Ferdinand and Isabella, sailed forth to discover a new route to the East.
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9780099592419 Pb.
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| I01610 | 823.914/RUS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019796
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Minneapolis, Picture Window Books, 2005.
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77pBlue Spine
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Read it! Chapter books - SWAT
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Bec and her dog Bronson go to Barcelona, Spain, on a Secret World Adventure Team mission to help a famous, but sad, flamenco dancer, and Bec gets some help with her own dancing in the process.
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1404816755 Hb.
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| 018638 | FIC/THO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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