{"product_id":"2940012025432","title":"Don Quixote","description":"It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Shelton's \"Don Quixote,\" which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some- and I confess myself to be one- for whom Shelton's racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes; \"Don Quixote\" had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173177409776,"sku":"2940012025432","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012025432_p0.jpg?v=1763551768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012025432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}