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(4.06) | 11 / 779 | "Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--Jacket.… (more) |
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▾LibraryThing Recommendations  114 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (DLSmithies)DLSmithies: Don Quixote was Flaubert's favourite book, and I've read somewhere that the idea of Madame Bovary is to re-tell the story of Don Quixote in a different context. Don Quixote is obsessed with chivalric literature, and immerses himself in it to the extent that he loses his grip on reality. Emma Bovary is bewitched by Romantic literature in the same way. There are lots of parallels between the two novels, and I think putting them side by side can lead to a better understanding of both.… (more) 71 Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (hdcclassic)hdcclassic: A modern-day retelling. 72 Don Quixote de La Mancha, Part II by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (g026r)g026r: The spurious continuation, published in 1614 while Cervantes was still working on his own Part II and which affected that work to a significant degree. 50 Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (CGlanovsky)CGlanovsky: In several of his critical essays Borges makes insightful and unique mention of Don Quixote sometimes directly and sometimes in reference to other works. 50 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (keremix)73 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Othemts)40 Orlando Furioso, Part One by Ludovico Ariosto (Lirmac)Lirmac: References to then-famous romances, such as this one by Ariosto, provide much of the humour in Don Quixote. In addition to enriching Cervantes' work, Orlando Furioso is entertaining in its own right (especially in this modern verse translation). 41 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (ateolf)30 The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (Rubbah)20 Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (CGlanovsky)CGlanovsky: Read the two concurrently and got a good sense of the kind of chivalric literature that gave birth to Quixote's madness. 20 Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (longway)10 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (TheLittlePhrase)TheLittlePhrase: protagonists who struggle to differentiate between reality & the books that they read 10 Simplicissimus by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (chwiggy)65 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (caflores)11 Handling Sin by Michael Malone (allenmichie)11 Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote by Thomas Mann (chwiggy)11 Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (roby72)01 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (CGlanovsky)CGlanovsky: Misguided protagonist gets into a series of misadventures
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Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.  Prologue: Idle reader: I don't have to swear any oaths to persuade you that I should like this book, since it is the son of my brain, to be the most beautiful and elegant and intelligent book imaginable.  Chapter 1: In a village in La Mancha, the name of which I cannot quite recall, there lived not long ago one of those country gentlemen or hidalgos who keep a lance in a rack, an ancient leather shield, a scrawny hack and a greyhound for coursing.  | |
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And as I have heard say, true love cannot be divided, and must be voluntary and unforced: -- this being so, as I believe it is, why would you have me subject my will by force, being not otherwise obliged thereto, than only because you say you love me? For, pray tell me, if as heaven has made me handsome, it had made me ugly, would it have been just that I should have complained of you because you did not love me? (Part 1, Chapter 14. Marcela is speaking)  Heaven has not yet ordained that I should love by destiny; and from loving by choice, I desire to be excused. (Part 1, Chapter 14. Marcela is speaking)  | |
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And with this you will fulfill you Christian duty, by giving good counsel to those who do not wish you well, and I shall be pleased and proud to have been the first who completely enjoyed the fruits of his writing, just as he wished, for my only desire has been to have people reject and despise the false and nonsensical histories of the books of chivalry , which are already stumbling over the history of my true Don Quixote, and will undoubtedly fall to the ground. Vale. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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Don Quixote was originally published in two parts. This is the complete and unabridged version, containing both parts. Please do not combine with abridged or incomplete versions.  | |
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▾Book descriptions "Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--Jacket. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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