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The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha: Volume 1
The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha Volume 1 Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Translated by P. A. Motteux. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by John Grant, Edinburgh. An unusual takeoff on chivalric romances, Don Quixote is one of the first picaresque novels ever written. It details the adventures of a middle-aged man who, having read so many cheap adventure novels that his brain became a... more »ddled, parades around in full armor battling windmills and proclaiming himself a knight-errant. With his squire Sancho Panza, his hardy steed (an elderly nag grandiloquently dubbed Rocinante), and dreams of his beloved in his heart, Don Quixote sallies forth to fight evildoers in his own inimitable, hilarious, yet strangely touching fashion.« less