Don Quijote

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel’s masterful translation (“Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English” — Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator’s note. A revised and expanded introduction as well as revised and expanded explanatory footnotes by Diana de Armas Wilson. A rich selection of contextual materials, including related writings by Cervantes and his contemporaries as well as a modern account of Don Quijote’s influence over five centuries. Fifteen critical essays—seven of them new to the Second Edition—thematically organised to maximise classroom discussion. The new essays are by Ilan Stavans, Anne J. Cruz, Paul Michael Johnson, Pablo Garci´a-Pin~ar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Barbara Fuchs and Andre´s Lema-Hincapie´. A chronology and a selected bibliography.