" Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera.
For the Modern Library\'s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as it.
The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought.
It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House.
The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. . . .
Pritchett observed: "Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe.
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He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. . . .
He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his] sheer vitality.
The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes." Lionel Trilling observed: "It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote." Vladmir Nabo-kov wrote: "Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes\'s womb. . . .
From Milan Kundera: "Cervan-tes is the founder of the Modern Era.
This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator.----The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?"----Widely regarded as the world\'s first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. " Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera
