The Adventures and Misadventures of Don Quixote: an up-to-date translation for today's readers.

James Montgomery is a retired university librarian who has had a life-long fascination with Don Quixote. A professor of Spanish before embarking upon a career in Library Science, he has pursued graduate studies in Spanish at the University of North Carolina, UCLA, the University of Havana, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of Mexico. He has devoted 21 years to the preparation of his translation, during which time he has meticulously studied the 15 most notable translations in the English language in an effort to make this version the authoritative one in English. He makes his home in Austin, Texas, where his son is on the faculty of the University of Texas.