Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan are Professors of Spanish, Whitman College.

[The Persiles ] could be thought to stand in the same relation to the Quixote as The Winter's Tale stands to Measure for Measure. . . . The present version really offers the Persiles for the first time in proper English dress. The translators have delicately balanced the formalities of its chronological age with the friskiness of its spirit: the finished version is just as much fun to read as it obviously was to make. A fine display of fireworks. --Robert M. Adams, The New Republic

If Don Quixote is ultimately a novel about the creative act, the Persiles offers a special portrait of an artist who balances parody and metafiction with a spirit of idealism. Weller and Colahan's translation is excellent. . . . Readers of English now have access to what Cervantes considered his major work. Highly recommended. --E. H. Friedman, Choice