The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote Saavedra Smollett Brack

The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don QuixoteAuthor(s): Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Tobias Smollett, O M Brack, Martin Battestin, Martin Battestin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820346076, 978-0820346076\nSynopsis\nThis authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory \""Life of Cervantes.\""\n\nSmollett's Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and was for many years the most popular English-language version of Cervantes's masterpiece. However, soon after the start of the nineteenth century, its reputation began to suffer. Rival translators, literary hucksters, and careless scholars initiated or fed a variety of charges against Smolletteven plagiar.