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Don Quixote de la Mancha
   

       Don Quixote, Rosinante and Sancho Panza.

      
   

Also spelled Don Quijote. Fictitious character, created by the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who is a poor gentleman of La Mancha, the bare and monotonous plateau of central Spain. He read so many of the exaggerated romances of chivalry of his day that he finally believed them to be true. One day he set forth himself as a knight-errant on his old horse, Rosinante. A shrewd, good-natured peasant of his village, Sancho Panza, went with him as his squire. Don Quixote regarded everything he saw as extraordinary. Inns were castles and windmills were giants.

The word "quixotic," meaning impractical and idealistic, and the phrase "tilting at a windmill," meaning to fight against an imaginary difficulty, have become part of our language through 'Don Quixote'.

The book was published in 1605, when Cervantes was 57. Despite its huge success, he received little money because of widespread pirating. While the fame of 'Don Quixote' spread through Europe, Cervantes lived in poverty, dependent upon rich patrons. He published the second part of 'Don Quixote' in 1615 and died the following year.

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Don Quixote (1973) -- Rudolf Nureyev.
Don Quixote (1988) -- The Kirov Ballet, Tatiana Terekhova.
Footnotes: Don Quixote & La Bayadere.
Man of La Mancha (1972).

Related books:
An Analytical and Bibliographical Guide to Criticism on Don Quijote (1790-1893).
Adventures of Don Quixote.
Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Chivalric World of Don Quixote: Style, Structure and Narrative Technique.
Critical Introduction to Don Quixote.
Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition).
Don Quixote.
Don Quixote (Everyman's Library Series).
Don Quixote (Modern Library).
Don Quixote (Oxford Illustrated Classics).
Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream.
Don Quixote De LA Mancha.
Don Quijote de la Mancha (Clasicos en Espanol).
Don Quixote De LA Mancha (Oxford World's Classics).
Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter.
Don Quixote Notes.
Don Quixote; The Ormsby Translation, Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism.
Man of LA Mancha.
The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature).
The History of That Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De LA Mancha.
The Novel According to Cervantes.

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Don Quijote of La Mancha.

 








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