Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
November 1 1980
EAN: 9780393090185
ISBN: 0393090183
Synopsis: The complete text of "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Parts I and II," is here offered in a substantially revised version of the translation by John Ormsby, first published in 1885. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, and recent textual scholarship has been taken into account in preparing the revisions; a detailed discussion of the procedures and principles followed by all the original prefatory material, including dedications, copyright notices, statements by the censor, and other items omitted by Ormsby.