A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by Fredson Bowers; photographs.

"Don Quixote" has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray - he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants - Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman a...(展开全部)

Book Description Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don...(展开全部)

"Don Quixote" has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray - he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants - Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman a...(展开全部)

Book Description Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don...(展开全部)

何塞•奥尔特加•伊•加塞特(1883-1955)，20世纪西班牙哲学家、思想家、文艺批评家、随笔作家。其作品涵盖存在主义、历史哲学、艺术理论、文学理论、对西班牙民族性的批判等方面。奥尔特加的著述在西语世界乃至20世纪西方思想史中占有重要地位。代表作有《大众的反叛》《堂吉诃德沉思录》《艺术的去人性化》等。 王军，北京大学西葡语系教授，主要从事西语国家文学研究。著作有《诗与思的激情对话》《二十世纪西班牙小说》《西班牙当代女性成长小说》。 蔡潇洁，文学博士，首都师范大学西班牙语系副教授，主要从事现当代西班牙文学与文化研究。

何塞•奥尔特加•伊•加塞特(1883-1955)，20世纪西班牙哲学家、思想家、文艺批评家、随笔作家。其作品涵盖存在主义、历史哲学、艺术理论、文学理论、对西班牙民族性的批判等方面。奥尔特加的著述在西语世界乃至20世纪西方思想史中占有重要地位。代表作有《大众的反叛》《堂吉诃德沉思录》《艺术的去人性化》等。 王军，北京大学西葡语系教授，主要从事西语国家文学研究。著作有《诗与思的激情对话》《二十世纪西班牙小说》《西班牙当代女性成长小说》。 蔡潇洁，文学博士，首都师范大学西班牙语系副教授，主要从事现当代西班牙文学与文化研究。

Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors' perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today.The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluc...(展开全部)

Surfaces are among the most common and easily visualized mathematical objects, and their study brings into focus fundamental ideas, concepts, and methods from geometry, topology, complex analysis, Morse theory, and group theory. At the same time, many of those notions appear in a technically simpler and more graphic form than in their general “natural” settings. The first, prim...(展开全部)

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.