Don Quixote de la Mancha (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes
- First Published: 1605
- Type of Work: Picaresque Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Picaresque fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Villages, Books, Barbershops or barbers, Hallucinations or illusions, Sixteenth century, Spain or Spanish people, Knights or knighthood, Chivalry
- Locales: Barcelona, Spain, La Mancha, Spain
Alonso Quijana, a Spanish country gentleman, is crazed by his reading of medieval romances. He resolves to go forth to right the world’s wrongs and champion the downtrodden. Having himself “knighted” by an innkeeper who humors him, Alonso takes on a new name--Don Quixote de la Mancha--and a squire, the peasant Sancho Panza.
Seeking adventure, Don Quixote interprets everything he sees in terms of his chivalric fantasy. As a would-be righter of wrongs, he challenges many ordinary men who he imagines are committing injustices. Though sometimes victorious, he receives many...
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