The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14

Languageen
First published2004-07-19
RightsPublic domain in the USA.
Gutenberg ID#5916

Description

"The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is part of a novel originally published in 1605. The story follows Alonso Quijano, a minor nobleman who loses his sanity from reading too many chivalric romances. Renaming himself Don Quixote, he sets out as a knight-errant with his squire Sancho Panza to revive chivalry. Their misadventures blur reality and fantasy, as Don Quixote battles windmills he mistakes for giants and transforms ordinary encounters into epic quests. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

  • Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction
  • Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction
  • Picaresque literature
  • Romances
  • PQ

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