Life Of Miguel De Cervantes Bibliography By J P Anderson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. TO the world Cervantes is a name for ever connected with Don Quixote. Book and author are so closely related that it is not possible to study them apart. Just as Don Quixote was the reflection of the man Cervantes, so it is in the record of the life of Cervantes that we may find the true interpretation of the story of Don Quixote. What need of a key to the mystery which has exercised a thousand pens, native and foreign--namely, the object with which Don Quixote was written--when we have before us the open chapter of the life of Cervantes? What need of any mystery at all, when the author so distinctly declares that his book is so clear that children, grown men, and greybeards equally love, comprehend, and enjoy it? Let those who insist upon a secret purpose, who will not believe the author in his express declaration that he meant only a book of entertainment, continue to hug their theories of a recondite inner meaning. That Don Quixote is a "satire" a great many are convinced--of the immortal herd of those who cannot conceive how any man should be guilty of humour and yet intend no malice. Charles V., Philip II., the Duke of Lerma, Ignatius Loyola, down to the recalcitrant cousin of Dona Catalina, and the crazy hidalgo of Argamasilla, these are among the originals whom the shrewder sort of interpreters, from the Jesuit / / c 166 LIFE OF Rapin down to the late Consul Rawdon Brown, of Venice, have detected in Cervantes' story. Of such theories it is only needful to say that those who can suppose that Cervantes meant, in painting Don Quixote, to revenge himself on any enemy, are beyond the reach of conversion. Scarcely less extravagant have been some of the later theories, which aim at the exaltation of Cervantes' work, and are...

Excerpt from Life of Miguel De Cervantes Much matter, intended chiefly for Spanish scholars and more advanced Cervantists, omitted, and much else by way of addition in the shape of criticisms and literary history added, to interest a wider circle of readers. For the leading facts of Cervantes' life I have availed myself of all the existing sources of information in Spain and elsewhere, though for the Opinions and theories I have adopted I am myself solely responsible. The translations from the Spanish, except where acknowledged as being by another hand, are my own, the passages from Don Quz'xo/e being taken from. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.