The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
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- Fairly demanding
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About the book
"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.
- Spain
- Knights and knighthood
- Picaresque literature
- Romances
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #5921. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete on Wikipedia.
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