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London: Bloomsbury. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (2016). Hardcover. 1408843846 . No signatures. 5mm chips to top corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition. xxiii, [1], 239, [2], [7 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with metallic red-bronze lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm. Illustrated. "In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spains wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. In Cervantes time, fiction was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or poetry which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman,…
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The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World Hardcover - 2016
by William Egginton
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- Title The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Author William Egginton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardback
- Pages 272
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury
- Date 2016
- ISBN 9781408843840
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