This, however, is of but little importance to our tale it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
They will have it his surname was Quixada or Quesada (for here there is some difference of opinion among the authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable conjectures it seems plain that he was called Quexana. The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman. He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hook. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income. 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.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. 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. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel).
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. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. 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.
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. John Ormsby).ĭon Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Librivox recording of Don Quixote Volume 1, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl.
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