Literature/Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes, 1605–1615Translated by John Ormsby (1885)

Cervantes’s novel of a gentleman of La Mancha who reads so many books of chivalry that he sets out as a knight-errant, with the farmer Sancho Panza as his squire, to right the world’s wrongs, taking inns for castles and windmills for giants.

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Contents

Part I

  1. The Author’s Preface
  2. Some Commendatory Verses
  3. Chapter IWhich Treats of the Character and Pursuits of the Famous Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
  4. Chapter IIWhich Treats of the First Sally the Ingenious Don Quixote Made from Home
  5. Chapter IIIWherein Is Related the Droll Way in Which Don Quixote Had Himself Dubbed a Knight
  6. Chapter IVOf What Happened to Our Knight When He Left the Inn
  7. Chapter VIn Which the Narrative of Our Knight’s Mishap Is Continued
  8. Chapter VIOf the Diverting and Important Scrutiny Which the Curate and the Barber Made in the Library of Our Ingenious Gentleman
  9. Chapter VIIOf the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
  10. Chapter VIIIOf the Good Fortune Which the Valiant Don Quixote Had in the Terrible and Undreamt-of Adventure of the Windmills, with Other Occurrences Worthy to Be Fitly Recorded
  11. Chapter IXIn Which Is Concluded and Finished the Terrific Battle Between the Gallant Biscayan and the Valiant Manchegan
  12. Chapter XOf the Pleasant Discourse That Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza
  13. Chapter XIWhat Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds
  14. Chapter XIIOf What a Goatherd Related to Those with Don Quixote
  15. Chapter XIIIIn Which Is Ended the Story of the Shepherdess Marcela, with Other Incidents
  16. Chapter XIVWherein Are Inserted the Despairing Verses of the Dead Shepherd, Together with Other Incidents Not Looked For
  17. Chapter XVIn Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Don Quixote Fell in with When He Fell Out with Certain Heartless Yanguesans
  18. Chapter XVIOf What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle
  19. Chapter XVIIIn Which Are Contained the Innumerable Troubles Which the Brave Don Quixote and His Good Squire Sancho Panza Endured in the Inn, Which to His Misfortune He Took to Be a Castle
  20. Chapter XVIIIIn Which Is Related the Discourse Sancho Panza Held with His Master, Don Quixote, and Other Adventures Worth Relating
  21. Chapter XIXOf the Shrewd Discourse Which Sancho Held with His Master, and of the Adventure That Befell Him with a Dead Body, Together with Other Notable Occurrences
  22. Chapter XXOf the Unexampled and Unheard-of Adventure Which Was Achieved by the Valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha with Less Peril than Any Ever Achieved by Any Famous Knight in the World
  23. Chapter XXIWhich Treats of the Exalted Adventure and Rich Prize of Mambrino’s Helmet, Together with Other Things That Happened to Our Invincible Knight
  24. Chapter XXIIOf the Freedom Don Quixote Conferred on Several Unfortunates Who Against Their Will Were Being Carried Where They Had No Wish to Go
  25. Chapter XXIIIOf What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, Which Was One of the Rarest Adventures Related in This Veracious History
  26. Chapter XXIVIn Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Sierra Morena
  27. Chapter XXVWhich Treats of the Strange Things That Happened to the Stout Knight of La Mancha in the Sierra Morena, and of His Imitation of the Penance of Beltenebros
  28. Chapter XXVIIn Which Are Continued the Refinements Wherewith Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena
  29. Chapter XXVIIOf How the Curate and the Barber Proceeded with Their Scheme; Together with Other Matters Worthy of Record in This Great History
  30. Chapter XXVIIIWhich Treats of the Strange and Delightful Adventure That Befell the Curate and the Barber in the Same Sierra
  31. Chapter XXIXWhich Treats of the Droll Device and Method Adopted to Extricate Our Love-Stricken Knight from the Severe Penance He Had Imposed upon Himself
  32. Chapter XXXWhich Treats of Address Displayed by the Fair Dorothea, with Other Matters Pleasant and Amusing
  33. Chapter XXXIOf the Delectable Discussion Between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, His Squire, Together with Other Incidents
  34. Chapter XXXIIWhich Treats of What Befell Don Quixote’s Party at the Inn
  35. Chapter XXXIIIIn Which Is Related the Novel of “The Ill-Advised Curiosity”
  36. Chapter XXXIVIn Which Is Continued the Novel of “The Ill-Advised Curiosity”
  37. Chapter XXXVWhich Treats of the Heroic and Prodigious Battle Don Quixote Had with Certain Skins of Red Wine, and Brings the Novel of “The Ill-Advised Curiosity” to a Close
  38. Chapter XXXVIWhich Treats of More Curious Incidents That Occurred at the Inn
  39. Chapter XXXVIIIn Which Is Continued the Story of the Famous Princess Micomicona, with Other Droll Adventures
  40. Chapter XXXVIIIWhich Treats of the Curious Discourse Don Quixote Delivered on Arms and Letters
  41. Chapter XXXIXWherein the Captive Relates His Life and Adventures
  42. Chapter XLIn Which the Story of the Captive Is Continued
  43. Chapter XLIIn Which the Captive Still Continues His Adventures
  44. Chapter XLIIWhich Treats of What Further Took Place in the Inn, and of Several Other Things Worth Knowing
  45. Chapter XLIIIWherein Is Related the Pleasant Story of the Muleteer, Together with Other Strange Things That Came to Pass in the Inn
  46. Chapter XLIVIn Which Are Continued the Unheard-of Adventures of the Inn
  47. Chapter XLVIn Which the Doubtful Question of Mambrino’s Helmet and the Pack-Saddle Is Finally Settled, with Other Adventures That Occurred in Truth and Earnest
  48. Chapter XLVIOf the End of the Notable Adventure of the Officers of the Holy Brotherhood; and of the Great Ferocity of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote
  49. Chapter XLVIIOf the Strange Manner in Which Don Quixote of La Mancha Was Carried Away Enchanted, Together with Other Remarkable Incidents
  50. Chapter XLVIIIIn Which the Canon Pursues the Subject of the Books of Chivalry, with Other Matters Worthy of His Wit
  51. Chapter XLIXWhich Treats of the Shrewd Conversation Which Sancho Panza Held with His Master Don Quixote
  52. Chapter LOf the Shrewd Controversy Which Don Quixote and the Canon Held, Together with Other Incidents
  53. Chapter LIWhich Deals with What the Goatherd Told Those Who Were Carrying Off Don Quixote
  54. Chapter LIIOf the Quarrel That Don Quixote Had with the Goatherd, Together with the Rare Adventure of the Penitents, Which with an Expenditure of Sweat He Brought to a Happy Conclusion

Part II

  1. The Author’s Preface
  2. Chapter IOf the Interview the Curate and the Barber Had with Don Quixote About His Malady
  3. Chapter IIWhich Treats of the Notable Altercation Which Sancho Panza Had with Don Quixote’s Niece, and Housekeeper, Together with Other Droll Matters
  4. Chapter IIIOf the Laughable Conversation That Passed Between Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the Bachelor Samson Carrasco
  5. Chapter IVIn Which Sancho Panza Gives a Satisfactory Reply to the Doubts and Questions of the Bachelor Samson Carrasco, Together with Other Matters Worth Knowing and Telling
  6. Chapter VOf the Shrewd and Droll Conversation That Passed Between Sancho Panza and His Wife Teresa Panza, and Other Matters Worthy of Being Duly Recorded
  7. Chapter VIOf What Took Place Between Don Quixote and His Niece and Housekeeper; One of the Most Important Chapters in the Whole History
  8. Chapter VIIOf What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire, Together with Other Very Notable Incidents
  9. Chapter VIIIWherein Is Related What Befell Don Quixote on His Way to See His Lady Dulcinea del Toboso
  10. Chapter IXWherein Is Related What Will Be Seen There
  11. Chapter XWherein Is Related the Crafty Device Sancho Adopted to Enchant the Lady Dulcinea, and Other Incidents as Ludicrous as They Are True
  12. Chapter XIOf the Strange Adventure Which the Valiant Don Quixote Had with the Car or Cart of “The Cortes of Death”
  13. Chapter XIIOf the Strange Adventure Which Befell the Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Mirrors
  14. Chapter XIIIIn Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Knight of the Grove, Together with the Sensible, Original, and Tranquil Colloquy That Passed Between the Two Squires
  15. Chapter XIVWherein Is Continued the Adventure of the Knight of the Grove
  16. Chapter XVWherein It Is Told and Known Who the Knight of the Mirrors and His Squire Were
  17. Chapter XVIOf What Befell Don Quixote with a Discreet Gentleman of La Mancha
  18. Chapter XVIIWherein Is Shown the Furthest and Highest Point Which the Unexampled Courage of Don Quixote Reached or Could Reach; Together with the Happily Achieved Adventure of the Lions
  19. Chapter XVIIIOf What Happened Don Quixote in the Castle or House of the Knight of the Green Gaban, Together with Other Matters Out of the Common
  20. Chapter XIXIn Which Is Related the Adventure of the Enamoured Shepherd, Together with Other Truly Droll Incidents
  21. Chapter XXWherein an Account Is Given of the Wedding of Camacho the Rich, Together with the Incident of Basilio the Poor
  22. Chapter XXIIn Which Camacho’s Wedding Is Continued, with Other Delightful Incidents
  23. Chapter XXIIWherein Is Related the Grand Adventure of the Cave of Montesinos in the Heart of La Mancha, Which the Valiant Don Quixote Brought to a Happy Termination
  24. Chapter XXIIIOf the Wonderful Things the Incomparable Don Quixote Said He Saw in the Profound Cave of Montesinos, the Impossibility and Magnitude of Which Cause This Adventure to Be Deemed Apocryphal
  25. Chapter XXIVWherein Are Related a Thousand Trifling Matters, as Trivial as They Are Necessary to the Right Understanding of This Great History
  26. Chapter XXVWherein Is Set Down the Braying Adventure, and the Droll One of the Puppet-Showman, Together with the Memorable Divinations of the Divining Ape
  27. Chapter XXVIWherein Is Continued the Droll Adventure of the Puppet-Showman, Together with Other Things in Truth Right Good
  28. Chapter XXVIIWherein It Is Shown Who Master Pedro and His Ape Were, Together with the Mishap Don Quixote Had in the Braying Adventure, Which He Did Not Conclude as He Would Have Liked or as He Had Expected
  29. Chapter XXVIIIOf Matters That Benengeli Says He Who Reads Them Will Know, If He Reads Them with Attention
  30. Chapter XXIXOf the Famous Adventure of the Enchanted Bark
  31. Chapter XXXOf Don Quixote’s Adventure with a Fair Huntress
  32. Chapter XXXIWhich Treats of Many and Great Matters
  33. Chapter XXXIIOf the Reply Don Quixote Gave His Censurer, with Other Incidents, Grave and Droll
  34. Chapter XXXIIIOf the Delectable Discourse Which the Duchess and Her Damsels Held with Sancho Panza, Well Worth Reading and Noting
  35. Chapter XXXIVWhich Relates How They Learned the Way in Which They Were to Disenchant the Peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures in This Book
  36. Chapter XXXVWherein Is Continued the Instruction Given to Don Quixote Touching the Disenchantment of Dulcinea, Together with Other Marvellous Incidents
  37. Chapter XXXVIWherein Is Related the Strange and Undreamt-of Adventure of the Distressed Duenna, Alias the Countess Trifaldi, Together with a Letter Which Sancho Panza Wrote to His Wife, Teresa Panza
  38. Chapter XXXVIIWherein Is Continued the Notable Adventure of the Distressed Duenna
  39. Chapter XXXVIIIWherein Is Told the Distressed Duenna’s Tale of Her Misfortunes
  40. Chapter XXXIXIn Which the Trifaldi Continues Her Marvellous and Memorable Story
  41. Chapter XLOf Matters Relating and Belonging to This Adventure and to This Memorable History
  42. Chapter XLIOf the Arrival of Clavileño and the End of This Protracted Adventure
  43. Chapter XLIIOf the Counsels Which Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza Before He Set Out to Govern the Island, Together with Other Well-Considered Matters
  44. Chapter XLIIIOf the Second Set of Counsels Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza
  45. Chapter XLIVHow Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government, and of the Strange Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle
  46. Chapter XLVOf How the Great Sancho Panza Took Possession of His Island, and of How He Made a Beginning in Governing
  47. Chapter XLVIOf the Terrible Bell and Cat Fright That Don Quixote Got in the Course of the Enamoured Altisidora’s Wooing
  48. Chapter XLVIIWherein Is Continued the Account of How Sancho Panza Conducted Himself in His Government
  49. Chapter XLVIIIOf What Befell Don Quixote with Doña Rodriguez, the Duchess’s Duenna, Together with Other Occurrences Worthy of Record and Eternal Remembrance
  50. Chapter XLIXOf What Happened Sancho in Making the Round of His Island
  51. Chapter LWherein Is Set Forth Who the Enchanters and Executioners Were Who Flogged the Duenna and Pinched Don Quixote, and Also What Befell the Page Who Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza, Sancho Panza’s Wife
  52. Chapter LIOf the Progress of Sancho’s Government, and Other Such Entertaining Matters
  53. Chapter LIIWherein Is Related the Adventure of the Second Distressed or Afflicted Duenna, Otherwise Called Doña Rodriguez
  54. Chapter LIIIOf the Troublous End and Termination Sancho Panza’s Government Came To
  55. Chapter LIVWhich Deals with Matters Relating to This History and No Other
  56. Chapter LVOf What Befell Sancho on the Road, and Other Things That Cannot Be Surpassed
  57. Chapter LVIOf the Prodigious and Unparalleled Battle That Took Place Between Don Quixote of La Mancha and the Lacquey Tosilos in Defence of the Daughter of Doña Rodriguez
  58. Chapter LVIIWhich Treats of How Don Quixote Took Leave of the Duke, and of What Followed with the Witty and Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess’s Damsels
  59. Chapter LVIIIWhich Tells How Adventures Came Crowding on Don Quixote in Such Numbers That They Gave One Another No Breathing-Time
  60. Chapter LIXWherein Is Related the Strange Thing, Which May Be Regarded as an Adventure, That Happened Don Quixote
  61. Chapter LXOf What Happened Don Quixote on His Way to Barcelona
  62. Chapter LXIOf What Happened Don Quixote on Entering Barcelona, Together with Other Matters That Partake of the True Rather than of the Ingenious
  63. Chapter LXIIWhich Deals with the Adventure of the Enchanted Head, Together with Other Trivial Matters Which Cannot Be Left Untold
  64. Chapter LXIIIOf the Mishap That Befell Sancho Panza Through the Visit to the Galleys, and the Strange Adventure of the Fair Morisco
  65. Chapter LXIVTreating of the Adventure Which Gave Don Quixote More Unhappiness than All That Had Hitherto Befallen Him
  66. Chapter LXVWherein Is Made Known Who the Knight of the White Moon Was; Likewise Don Gregorio’s Release, and Other Events
  67. Chapter LXVIWhich Treats of What He Who Reads Will See, or What He Who Has It Read to Him Will Hear
  68. Chapter LXVIIOf the Resolution Don Quixote Formed to Turn Shepherd and Take to a Life in the Fields While the Year for Which He Had Given His Word Was Running Its Course; with Other Events Truly Delectable and Happy
  69. Chapter LXVIIIOf the Bristly Adventure That Befell Don Quixote
  70. Chapter LXIXOf the Strangest and Most Extraordinary Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Whole Course of This Great History
  71. Chapter LXXWhich Follows Sixty-Nine and Deals with Matters Indispensable for the Clear Comprehension of This History
  72. Chapter LXXIOf What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho on the Way to Their Village
  73. Chapter LXXIIOf How Don Quixote and Sancho Reached Their Village
  74. Chapter LXXIIIOf the Omens Don Quixote Had as He Entered His Own Village, and Other Incidents That Embellish and Give a Colour to This Great History
  75. Chapter LXXIVOf How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made, and How He Died