{"product_id":"don-quixote-de-la-mancha-apocryphal","title":"Don Quijote de La Mancha (apokryph)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when another writer sends Don Quixote back onto the roads of Spain?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn aging gentleman believes he is a knight errant, and adventure calls again. Don Quixote rides out with Sancho Panza, his hungry, simple squire. But this is Avellaneda’s rival continuation: familiar companions now follow a different course, with a coarser Sancho and a harsher laugh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlonso Fernández de Avellaneda is a pen name, and the writer behind it remains unknown. His unauthorized sequel appears in 1614, before Cervantes finishes his own second part. The book offers more than another journey: it lets you explore a literary quarrel through the characters at its heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA familiar knight redirected\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Don Quixote as another writer sends him out in search of adventure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSancho with a harder edge\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a hungry, simple companion whose portrayal invites comparison with Cervantes’s more tender squire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDevotion takes another shape\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover how Dulcinea del Toboso’s place changes within this rival vision of the knight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA gentleman between sequels\u003c\/strong\u003e – Encounter Álvaro Tarfe, a gentleman on the knight’s travels whom Cervantes later borrows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA quarrel on the page\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore the rival tale that pushes Cervantes to answer within his own continuation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who know Cervantes’s first part, love his characters, and want to explore a rival’s imitation or a literary quarrel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and meet the knight and squire through a rival writer’s eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534684258652,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/09863_en_ebook-front_c19.jpg?v=1792175084","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/don-quijote-de-la-mancha-apokryph","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}