PENGUIN Don Quixote Hardcover – Big Book, 9 October 2018

Alas, several pages of my copy of the book are missing! Pages 451-498 are gone! Then, when you get to p.546, the next page is another 499 until another 546. After that, the rest of the pages are fine. I've read the whole book, and pages 451-498 are nowhere to be found in it. Otherwise, it's a beautifully bound book for a very good price, and the translation is excellent. I ordered it in September, didn't read it until this month (Feb.), when I found the mistake. I suppose it's just my copy, not a general problem with the whole printed edition? Others don't seem to have this strange problem. Don Quixote might blame all mischief he suffers on enchanters and sorcerers, but the readers know that cruel people are the ones persecuting and pranking him and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. They punch down on the already afflicted - the poor, ignorant and mad. And, sometimes, what looks like mischief is just bad luck. In this case, I think it's just a mistake that slipped past quality control. I can read the missing pages - in a different translation - online, but I wish my copy had all the chapters and pages. Still, it's a beautiful edition of the great Don Quixote by the sublime Cervantes.

I have purchased two hardcover versions of Don Quixote, and both of them have barcode stickers, do all the books have these stickers or only the ones that I’ve received? Ever since apart from this I must say the book is amazing but it’s a bit annoying to see these barcode stickers and not being able to take them off since once you take them off the ink would fade away too.

Nice edition to a decent price but the cover is really poorly printed. The color can be scraped off with your nails. In other words if you put this book between other books in a bookshelf it will leave color residue on the books around it. Also the heat from my hands seems to lift off some of the paint when I’m reading it. Too bad it has these flaws, since it’s a nice edition just poorly executed.

The quality of the pages and that of binding is definitely excellent. An aesthetic piece which you cannot get off with.