Dialog of the Dogs

Miguel de Cervantes’s most famous work, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) was published in two installments released ten years apart in 1605 and 1615. In 1613, Cervantez wrote El Coloquio de los Perros (The Conversation of the Dogs). Many scholars consider it to be his finest work next to Don Quixote.

In 1881, George Bell and Sons published the only known English translation of this work. Walter K. Kelly, a prolific writer a…