), Woody Allen’sAnnie Hall, William Goldman’sThe Princess Bride(also a novel before it was a film), Puck’s final monologue in Shakespeare’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cervantes’Don Quixote, and even Chaucer’sCanterbury Tales.
9. Cervantes (author of “Don Quixote”) said it well: “The journey itself is better than the destination”. Most people don't understand what he meant, but thanks to my dad, I get it. Happiness is about maximizing your abilities and teaching your team to do the same. 10. Our job ...
“He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hook.”—Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote “In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old ...
The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years. That former prisoner was Cervantes,and the book was Don Quixote(《堂吉诃德》). And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their d...
Four centuries ago,the author of one of the greatest comic creations in all of world literature breathed his last breath.Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616),the author of Don Quixote (《堂•吉诃德》),is to the Spanish what Shakespe
Now comes Cervantes'second great creation:Sancho Panza.Quijano makes his servant Quixote's squire (随从),because every self-respecting knight has a squire.Sancho is a sensible foil (陪衬) to the foolish master. The pair have many adventures ahead of them,but none will be as heroic as a kni...
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Corazón tan blanco, by Javier Marías Niebla, by Miguel de Unamuno Los santos inocentes, by Miguel Dilibes La catedral del mar, by Idlefonso Falcones Books by Chilean authors: La casa de los espíritus, by Isabel Allende ...
Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous ...
appealed to the world for more than 350 years. That former prisoner was Cervantes,and the book was Don Quixote(《堂吉诃德》). And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days,while others go to seed long before?
Don Quixote. makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldoua ...