Don QuixoteNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes “the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling “observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator. |
Contents
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Which treats of the new and pleasing adventure of | 272 |
Which treats of the amusing artifice and means employed | 287 |
Which treats of the fair Doroteas ready wit and other | 300 |
Of the delectable conversation that took place between | 311 |
company at the inn | 321 |
In which is related the Story of the One Who Was | 328 |
In which is continued the Story of the One Who | 348 |
In which the Story of the One Who Was Too Curious | 368 |
Of the good fortune which the valorous Don Quixote had | 71 |
In which is concluded and brought to an end the stupendous | 80 |
Of the pleasing conversation that took place between | 86 |
Of what happened to Don Quixote in the company of certain | 92 |
Of the story that one of the goatherds told to Don Quixote | 99 |
In which is brought to a close the story of the shepherdess | 105 |
In which are set down the despairing verses of the deceased | 115 |
In which is related the unfortunate adventure that befell | 125 |
Of what happened to the ingenious gentleman in the | 133 |
Wherein is continued the account of the innumerable | 141 |
In which is set forth the conversation that Sancho Panza | 150 |
Of the shrewd things that Sancho Panza said to his master | 161 |
was completed by the valorous Don Quixote de la Mancha | 169 |
Which treats of the high and richly rewarded adventure | 183 |
Of how Don Quixote freed many unfortunate ones who | 195 |
Of what happened to the famous Don Quixote in the Sierra | 207 |
In which is continued the adventure of the Sierra Morena | 219 |
Which treats of the strange things that happened to | 228 |
In which is continued the account of those refinements that | 245 |
How the curate and the barber carried out their plan along | 254 |
Which treats of other extraordinary events that occurred | 378 |
Wherein is continued the story of the famous Princess | 388 |
Which treats of the curious discourse that Don Quixote | 399 |
Which treats of further happenings at the inn and other | 446 |
In which is related the pleasing story of the muleteer with | 454 |
In which are continued the unheardof adventures at | 465 |
In which the dispute over Mambrinos helmet and | 474 |
Wherein is concluded the notable adventure of | 482 |
Of the strange manner in which a spell was laid on | 491 |
In which the canon continues his discourse on the subject | 502 |
Of the shrewd conversation that Sancho Panza had with | 511 |
Of the weighty argument which took place between | 519 |
Which treats of the story the goatherd told to all those | 526 |
Of the quarrel that Don Quixote had with the goatherd | 532 |
Of the conversation which the curate and the barber had with | 597 |
Which treats of the notable quarrel that Sancho Panza had with | 609 |
Of the laughable conversation that took place between | 615 |
Wherein Sancho Panza answers the bachelors questions | 624 |
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Common terms and phrases
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