Bibliograph

The man who invented fiction, how Cervantes ushered in the modern world, William Egginton

Type

Label

The man who invented fiction, how Cervantes ushered in the modern world, William Egginton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The man who invented fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907965987

Responsibility statement

William Egginton

Sub title

how Cervantes ushered in the modern world

Summary

"In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world."--, Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Within and Without -- Poetry and History -- Open and Closed -- Soldier of Misfortune -- A Captive Imagination -- All the World's a Stage -- Of Shepherds, Knights, and Ladies -- A Rogue's Gallery -- The Fictional World

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