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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...
    Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Don Quixote

    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    Don Quixote has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • In Praise of Reading and Fiction

    The Nobel Lecture

    by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Exemplary Novels

    by Miguel de Cervantes ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death   The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents ... Read more

    $30.29 CAD

  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A Nobel Prize winner's captivating novel of reality, fantasy, and sensualitySet in Lima, Notebooks of Don Rigoberto tells a love story whose participants may be the fictional characters of Don Rigoberto himself. With his signature wit and playfulness, Mario Vargas Llosa masterfully blurs the lines between reality and imagination, crafting a novel that is at once sexy, humorous, thought-provoking, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Neighborhood

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A tabloid sex scandal leads to murder in the Nobel laureate's politically charged thriller set among the wealthy elite of 1990s Peru.Through the 1990s, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori oversaw a deeply corrupt society. Those among the elite enjoyed privilege beyond imagining. But two couples from Lima's upper class are about to become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Dream of the Celt

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    This "vast and intriguing novel" explores the life of an Irish nationalist who exposed Britain's colonial crimes—by the Nobel Prize–winning author ( Guardian, UK).In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world—especially the native populations ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • In the Night of Time

    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A "hypnotic" novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man's quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books).October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Discreet Hero

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this tale of two Peruvians in separate cities who each stand up to injustice, the Nobel laureate is "a master playing at his craft" ( Los Angeles Times).Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in the Peruvian city of Piura, finds himself the victim of blackmail—and finds within himself the will to refuse. Meanwhile, Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, cooks up a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Solitudes

    A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

    by Luis de Gongora, Edith Grossman ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that ... Read more

    Was $20.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Death in the Andes

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Three men disappear in the Peruvian Andes where a guerilla group resides, in the Nobel Laureate's "intriguing political detective story . . . A terrific novel" ( Kirkus Reviews).In Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa returns to the world of Corporal Lituma and his assistant Tomas Correo, last seen in Who Killed Palomino Molero?. Through his chilling tale of mystery, Vargas Llosa weaves an ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD