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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

1605 · Novel · Adventure

Open Library OL26799707W

A country gentleman renames himself a knight and rides out to enforce the plots of chivalric books. Cervantes’s novel is the comedy of taking reading literally. The link is to a public-domain English translation.

About the author

Cervantes sent Don Quixote out to live by the rules of books he had read too well. The result is a comedy about reading itself. The link here is to a public-domain English translation. More of this shelf for Miguel de Cervantes.

Where to read it

Open Library hosts the reading view. Some editions open in the browser; others ask you to borrow. Project Gutenberg links in this catalog open the book’s page, not a file kept here.

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