The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616

"The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a Spanish novel published in 1605. A minor nobleman loses his sanity from reading too many chivalric romances and decides to become a knight-errant. Renaming himself Don Quixote, he recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Together they embark on adventures where Don Quixote mistakes windmills for giants and inns for castles, unable to see the world as it truly is. ... Read more

About this eBook

Author	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Illustrator	Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883
Translator	Ormsby, John, 1829-1895
Title	The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
Note	Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
Credits	David Widger
Reading Level	Reading ease score: 46.3 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language	English
LoC Class	PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject	Romances
Category	Text
eBook-No.	5921
Release Date	Jul 19, 2004
Last Update	Mar 23, 2023
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
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