Don Quixote | Related Titles/Adaptations
The best works to read in conjunction with Don Quixote are The Exemplary Novels, Cervantes's collection of twelve short stories. The author called them "exemplary novels" because "it is impossible not to derive some moral lesson from each of them." Each story illustrates some moral truth and, like Don Quixote, exposes a typical human weakness. "The Jealous Extremaduran," for example, tells of an old man who keeps his young pretty wife locked away for fear that she will commit adultery. By imprisoning his wife, the old man makes his own discomfiture more likely. Many of the...
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