Stories from Don Quixote
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| Stories from Don Quixote |
There is perhaps no book, among the world's great classics, which lends itself so readily to abridgement as " Don Quixote." In the First Part, down to the knight's return from the Sierra Morena, the narrative moves on swiftly and surely in one unclouded blaze of genius; but after this prodigious effort the author's invention begins to flag, and the remaining chapters are padded out with a mass of episodes which have little or no connection with the story.
The admirable Second Part, though more carefully planned, and unencumbered by irrelevant matter, is certainly, on the whole, less brilliant and delightful than those wonderful thirty chapters which exhibit Cervantes in the heyday of his powers.
Contents of the book:
Introduction .- Don Quixote resolves to turn Knight-Errant.- How Don Quixote was dubbed Knight - The Adventures of Don Quixote after leaving the Inn- The Burning of the Books of Chivalry - Don Quixote and Sancho - The Battle of the Windmills- Don Quixote's Duel with the Valiant Biscayan.- Discourse, grave and gay, between Don Quixote and his Squire- Don Quixote and the Carriers - The Great Battle with the Army of the East.- The Helmet of Mambrino - Don Quixote and the Convicts - Don Quixote does penance in the Sierra Morena - Sancho meets the Priest and Barber = Further Adventures at the Inn - Don Quixote visits Toboso The Knight of the Mirrors. - Don Quixote's Adventure with the Lions - The Wedding of Camacho - The Adventure of the Enchanted Bark - Don Quixote becomes the Guest of a Duke Sancho and His Isle.- Don Quixote's Last Battle - At Rest - Pronouncing List of Names -
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Editor H. L. Havell
Publication Date:1908
Publication Date:1908