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'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes tells the story of the eccentric Alonso Quixano, a man in his mid 50s, whose love for chivalric romantics leads him to assume the function of a knight-errant as he goes out on a noble quest to prove his valor to the world by reviving the culture of gallant horse-riding.
May 28, 2021 · Perhaps you're familiar with 'Don Quixote': a story of delusional noblemen, portly squires, and windmill monsters. But here are a few facts you haven’t heard about the two-volume 17th-century ...
A middle-aged man named Alonso Quixano, a skinny bachelor and a lover of chivalry romances, loses his mind and decides to become a valiant knight.He names himself Don Quixote de la Mancha, names his bony horse Rocinante, and gives his beloved the sweet name Dulcinea.
Miguel de Cervantes - Spanish Author, Don Quixote, Novelist: Cervantes’s masterpiece Don Quixote has been variously interpreted as a parody of chivalric romances, an epic of heroic idealism, a commentary on the author’s alienation, and a critique of Spanish imperialism. While the Romantic tradition downplayed the novel’s hilarity by transforming Don Quixote into a tragic hero, readers ...
Sep 25, 2007 · After more than 400 years of scintillating its readership, Miguel de Cervantes' classic book, 'Don Quixote,' still proves in today's world to be an endlessly readable masterwork of literature.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadDon Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself.
Miguel de Cervantes' classic book, 'Don Quixote,' presents a plethora of themes for the reader to consider, and they range from delusion to madness to knighthood to romance, among other themes.
