Don Quixote - Vol. 1

By Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Book Id: WPLBN0002951712
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File Size: 612.92 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Don Quixote - Vol. 1
Author:	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Adventure, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Don Quixote - Vol. 1
Historic Publication Date:	1885
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago De Cervantes Saavedra, B. M. (1885). Don Quixote - Vol. 1. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. His lady is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck knight (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Adventure, Fiction, Literature