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Lectures on Don Quixote

by Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers

A series of lectures providing a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the Spanish classic. The text challenges traditional views of the novel as a satire, instead identifying it as a catalogue of cruelty.

Accession 6739 ISBN 9780156495400 Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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