The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha
(Book)

Although published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today-perhaps from the extensive influence it has played on novelists, playwrights and even composers over the centuries, or perhaps from its eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past.

Wherein is rehearsed the unfortunate adventure which happened to Don Quixote, by encountering with certain Yanguesian carriers -- Of that which happened unto the ingenuous knight within the inn, which he supposed to be a castle -- Wherein are rehearsed the innumerable misfortunes which Don Quixote and his good Squire Sancho suffered in the inn, which he, to his harm, thought to be a castle -- Wherein are rehearsed the discourses passed between Sancho Panza and his lord, Don Quixote, with other adventures worthy the recital -- Of the discreet discourse passed between Sancho and his lord; with the adventure succeeding of a dead body; and other notable occurrences -- Of a wonderful adventure, achieved with less hazard than ever any other knight did any, by the valorous Don Quixote of the Mancha -- Of the high adventure and rich winning of the helmet of Mambrino, with other successes which befel the invincible knight -- Of the liberty Don Quixote gave to many wretches, who were a-carrying perforce to a place they desired not -- Of that which befel the famous Don Quixote in Sierra Morena which was one of the most rare adventures that in this or any other so authentic a history is recounted -- Wherein is prosecuted the adventure of Sierra Morena -- Which treats of the strange adventures that happened to the knight of the Mancha in Sierra Morena; and of the penance he did there, in imitation of Beltenebros -- Wherein are prosecuted the pranks played by Don Quixote in his amorous humours in the mountains of Sierra Morena -- How the curate and the barber put their design in practice, with many other things worthy to be recorded in this famous history.