Las Manos Cerradas

How Don Quixote was knighted, his valiant battle with the windmills, and much more. English translations on facing pages of original Spanish text capture the flavor and romance of this literary masterpiece.

For the first in digital publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete novels of the Spanish master Miguel de Cervantes, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Cervantes’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All four novels, with individual contents tables * LA GALATEA and PERSILES are available in other collection * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Both parts of the famous DON QUIXOTE are fully illustrated with Gustave Doré’s celebrated artwork * Includes Cervantes’ complete works in the original Spanish – ideal for students * Special criticism section, with essays and interesting extracts evaluating Cervantes’ contribution to literature * Features a bonus biography – discover Cervantes’ literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: no known translations of Cervantes’ plays or poetry are available in the public domain and so they are unable to appear in the collection. To compensate for this, the Spanish works are included. CONTENTS: The Novels LA GALATEA THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA THE SECOND PART OF THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA THE WANDERINGS OF PERSILES AND SIGISMUNDA The Short Stories THE EXEMPLARY NOVELS The Spanish Texts LIST OF CERVANTES’ WORKS The Criticism A LECTURE ON ‘DON QUIXOTE’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge CERVANTES by William Dean Howells An Extract from ‘THE BODY OF THE NATION’ by Mark Twain An Extract from ‘HUMOUR’ by G. K. Chesterton An Extract from ‘READING’ by Virginia Woolf The Biography CERVANTES AND DON QUIXOTE by John Ormsby Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain explores the conception and production of early modern Spanish literary texts in the context of the inquisitorial socio-cultural environment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Author Ryan Prendergast analyzes instances of how the elaborate censorial system and the threat of punishment that both the Inquisition and the Crown deployed did not deter all writers from incorporating, confronting, and critiquing legally sanctioned practices and the exercise of institutional power designed to induce conformity and maintain orthodoxy. The book maps out how texts from different literary genres scrutinize varying facets of inquisitorial discourse and represent the influence of the Inquisition on early modern Spanish subjects, including authors and readers. Because of its incorporation of inquisitorial scenes and practices as well as its integration of numerous literary genres, Don Quixote serves as the book's principal literary resource. The author also examines the Moorish novel/ la novela morisca with special attention to the question of the religious and cultural Others, in particular the Muslim subject; the Picaresque novel/la novela picaresca, focusing on the issues of confession and punishment; and theatrical representations and dramatic texts, which deal with the public performance of ideology. The texts, which had differing levels of contact with censorial processes ranging from complete prohibition to no censorship, incorporate the issues of control, intolerance, and resistance. Through his close readings of Golden Age texts, Prendergast investigates the strategies that literary characters, many of them represented as legally or socially errant subjects, utilize to negotiate the limits that authorities and society attempt to impose on them, and demonstrates the pervasive nature of the inquisitorial specter in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish cultural production.

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse.

Lupe Victoria Yoli Raymond, popularmente conocida como La Lupe, o La Yiyiyi, lleno toda una época con su música, una mujer de un extraordinario valor, sin embargo, aun su recuerdo esta cubierto como con un velo, donde lo que nos llegan son historias, que muchas veces rayan en lo inverosímil o meras exageraciones. Pero la vida de Lupe fue así, siempre rodeada de hechos como salidos de la leyenda. Desde las polvorientas calles de San Pedrito, en el Oriente de Cuba, se trillo una carrera como interprete de música popular, hizo temblar la revolución de Fidel Castro, llego a los Estados Unidos, donde se situó en el trono incuestionable de La Reina de la Canción Latina. En esta obra, el autor desvela la vida de la artista como nunca nadie antes lo había hecho, con una narrativa dramática, emotiva, triste y perturbadora, llevando al lector a los mas oscuros rincones de la vida de la diva, así como también a los mas cándidos, leales, humanos y amorosos sentimientos de los que siempre fue dueña La Lupe. La Lupe, una Reina Poseída, revela la verdadera vida de Lupe Victoria Yoli Raymond, sin leyendas, sin tapujos. Conozca sus momentos de triunfos, así como los momentos amargos, de dolor miseria y abandono por los que tuvo que pasar esta extraordinaria mujer. Véalos pasar frente a sus ojos como una película, la cual nadie aun ha sido espectador.

La Puerta Cerrada del Oriente es un libro basado en mi tesis al Doctorado en la Universidad Bautista de Louisiana en el 2015. En este trabajo hablo de la experiencia de mis viajes a Israel, sobre las puertas alrededor del muro de Jerusalén, pero enfatizo “La Puerta Cerrada del Oriente.” Así como Dios usó a Augusto César para promulgar un edicto y llamó a todos al empadronamiento, José siendo de la ciudad de David, fue a Belén a empadronarse. Estando allí, se cumple la profecía que María daría a luz a Jesús. Dios usa a Augusto César que nada tenía que ver con Dios ni con Su escritura, es usado para llevar acabo el cumplimiento de una profecía. De la misma manera, Dios usa al Sultán Solimán el Magnífico en 1517 para cerrar la puerta Dorada, la puerta del Oriente de Jerusalén, cuando se dio cuenta que por esa puerta entraría el Mesías a reinar. El al estilo Herodes que manda matar a todos los niños, El Magnífico en su paranoia, mandó cerrar la puerta para que no entrara por allí el Mesías. Al hacer eso cumplió con la profecía de Ezequiel 40:4.