The Story of Don Juan
No. of pages 96
Published: 2013
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This book is part of a book series called Save the Story .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Pushkin Children's Books .
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer who is read and translated all over the world. He has transformed books into television, and music into books. He knows the stories from the old days and the people of today. He has made a film about someone who very much resembles him: a professor who has, his entire life, been intent on delivering a mad lecture.
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[Save the Story] is being pursued with rare editorial panache. These books look enticing, are generously sized and dashingly illustrated... What makes these books special is that, brilliantly told by top-flight novelists, they are fresh, idiosyncratic and winning... Alessandro Baricco (whose novels I am now minded to read) has done an irresistible job with Don Juan and sums up his philandering expertise to perfection: "Leaving was the thing he did best." -- Kate Kellaway Observer We love the new, illustrated retellings in the brilliant Save the Story range from Pushkin Press TBK Magazine An amazing new series from Pushkin Books in which literary, adult authors retell classics (with terrific illustrations) for a younger generation Daily Telegraph Marvellously written... engrossing... beautifully constructed to make gifts to be treasured for Christmas Fluxlings Part of Pushkin Press's Save the Story series, Alessandro Barrico's take on Don Juan does a brilliant job boiling down the famed seducer's story to its essentials. This handsomely illustrated series, also including Antigone, Gulliver's Travels and Captain Nemo, offers younger readers vivid, accessible first encounters with some literary heavyweights Metro A children's book of the year 2013 Time Out London Perfect for readers old, young or in-between. -- Mark Perryman Huffington Post An international selection of well-established writers, each matched with a timelessly popular children's tale to reinterpret and rewrite, loyal to the original but given a new twist in the process. Oh, and lavishly illustrated too -- Mark Perryman
