This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" -- Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson, and including the translator's note.
• A revised and expanded introduction as well as revised and expanded explanatory footnotes by Diana de Armas Wilson.
• A rich selection of contextual materials, including related writings by Cervantes and his contemporaries as well as a modern account of Don Quijote's influence over five centuries.
• Fifteen critical essays--seven of them new to the Second Edition--thematically organized to maximize classroom discussion. The new essays are by Ilan Stavans, Anne J. Cruz, Paul Michael Johnson, Pablo Garci´a-Pin ar, Anthony J. Cascardi, Barbara Fuchs, and Andre´s Lema-Hincapie´.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.
  

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