The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
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"The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a Spanish novel published in 1605. A minor nobleman loses his sanity from reading too many chivalric romances and decides to become a knight-errant. Renaming himself Don Quixote, he recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Together they embark on adventures where Don Quixote mistakes windmills for giants and inns for castles, unable to see the world as it truly is.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) was a Spanish soldier, tax collector and novelist who had lived most of an eventful life before he wrote the book he is known for. He was shot three times at the battle of Lepanto and lost the use of his left hand; on the way home he was captured by corsairs and spent five years enslaved in Algiers, attempting escape four times. Back in Spain he requisitioned grain for the Armada and was jailed over the accounts. He published the first part of Don Quixote at fifty-seven, and wrote the second after another author brought out a spurious sequel.