European Masterpieces:
Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics Available for Student Use

New Call for Proposals!
We are initiating a second round of Cervantes & Co. Spanish Classics and are soliciting proposals for new works. We are looking for native English-speaking editors at institutions where this kind of publication will help their bid for promotion. We say “native English-speaking” because these people have struggled with the work as students relatively recently, and know where problems for English speakers lie. E-mail your initial proposals to Lathrop@udel.edu.

European Masterpieces (including the series Cervantes & Co.) is now an imprint of LinguaText, Ltd.

Cervantes & Co. was launched in 2002 as an imprint of Cuesta as a result of the success of the Don Quijote edition’s pedagogical apparatus. It is now the first series in the LinguaText imprint European Masterpieces. The name “Cervantes & Co.” derives from the Paris bookstore, Shakespeare & Co., where intellectuals from different cultures met, and which published James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Our edition of Don Quijote has been enormously successful owing to its pedagogical apparatus. In light of that success, we contracted many more editions that use the same pedagogy. Editions produced in Spain for Spanish nationals assume cultural and linguistic baggage that our students simply do not and cannot have. In our editions, words that students are likely not to know are in the margin—already looked up, in English—so they know instantly what the words mean. We feel that using English is correct since using Spanish glosses either dilute the meaning (we’ve seen insecto for escarabajo, for example), or force students to look up the glossed word (such as cogote being glossed for colodrillo)! We offer also lots of footnotes that students in Spain simply do not need, but ours require. A final glossary defines more words than are in the margins, just in case.

Sample PDFs of the Classic editions