The man who invented fiction

William Egginton

earliest edition we have, 2016 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016

"In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making i...

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El hombre que inventó la ficción edition · 2017 · Alba · 9788490653418
Man Who Invented Fiction edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 272 pages · 9781635570243
Man Who Invented Fiction edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408843840
The man who invented fiction edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 239 pages · 9781620401750
Man Who Invented Fiction edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408843864

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