The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton

The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

William Egginton

272 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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