Reproduction of the original: The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes

Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes.

This book ultimately serves as a vigorous defense of the canonical as well as the neglected critical traditions that promoted Cervantes's humanism in the 20th century.

Author E. T. Aylward proposes that the precise ordering of Cervantes's twelve novellas is based on the thematic and structural patterns of the individual stories contained in the collection.