THE LIFE AND MISADVENTURES OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES—Mariano Tomas—Houghton Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ...
As if neither man wanted to live in a world without the other, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. Or not exactly. They didn’t actually succumb on the same day.
After the huge success of Don Quixote, a second part not written by Cervantes appears. The book is written by someone who uses the nom de plume Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda and prompts Cervantes to ...
The books were photographed at Sotheby's auction house in London before the Paris auction. A coveted two-part copy of Miguel Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” fetched $536,689 at Sotheby’s France on Wednesday, ...