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Article: Miguel de Cervantes. The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.(Resena de libro)
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- Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
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- September 22, 2002
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Trans. John Rutherford. Intro. by Roberto González EcheverrÃa. New York: Penguin, 2001. xi + 1023 pp. ISBN: 0-1404-4804-7 (paperback).
Penguin Books published its first translation of Don Quixote in 1950, done by J[ohn] M[ichael] Cohen. It was reprinted about eight times until 1975 and then went out of print. It was a good work. I couldn't figure out why it was dropped from Penguin's list--unless because it was supplanted by Walter Starkie's 1964 complete translation published by Signet Classics in the United States.
In any case, it's good to see that Penguin is back with this new translation. Rutherford did his translation in the town of Ribadeo in ...