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How to Sound Like an Author of Great Reading, Learning and Eloquence: A Quixotic Preface

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Cervantes’ preface to Don Quixote is a caustic satire of academic writing, just as valid today as it was four hundred and five years ago. Full of delicious irony, Cervantes brags with the deepest humility. He points out the flaws in the book are its qualities.

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Written by ronosaurus

February 28th, 2010 at 11:23 am