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The Story of Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

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Volume I

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IWhich Treats of the Character and Pursuits of The Famous Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha1
II-IIIWhich Treats of the First Sally Don Quixote Made from Home6
IVWhich Treats of Don Quixote’s Further Adventures14
VIn Which the Narrative of Our Knight’s Mishap is Continued20
VIOf the Diverting and Important Scrutiny Which the Curate and the Barber Made in the Library of Our Ingenious Gentleman22
VIIOf the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha24
VIII-IXOf 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, Including the Terrible Battle Between the Gallant Biscayan and the Valiant Manchegan27
XOf the Pleasant Discourse That Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza33
XIOf What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds37
XIIOf What a Goatherd Related to Those with Don Quixote39
XIIIIn Which Is Ended the Story of the Shepherdess Marcela with Other Incidents41
XIVWherein Are Described the Despairing Verses of the Dead Shepherd45
XVIn Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Don Quixote Fell in with When He Fell out with Certain Heartless Yanguesans47
XVIOf What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle50
XVIIIn Which Are Contained the Innumerable Troubles Which the Brave Don Quixote and His Good Squire Sancho Panza Endured at the Inn, Which, to His Misfortune, He Took to Be a Castle51
XVIIIIn Which Is Related the Discourse Sancho Panza Held with His Master, Don Quixote, Together with Other Adventures Worth Relating55
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 Occurrences59
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 World62
XXIWhich Treats of the Exalted Adventure and Rich Prize of Mambrino’s Helmet, Together with Other Things That Happened to Our Invincible Knight65
XXIIOf the Freedom Don Quixote Conferred on Several Unfortunates Who Against Their Will Were Being Carried Where They Had No Wish to Go68
XXIIIOf What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures Related in This Veracious History71
XXIVIn Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Sierra Morena73
XXVWhich Treats of the Strange Things That Happened to the Stout Knight of La Mancha in the Sierra Morena75
XXVIIn Which Are Continued the Refinements Wherewith Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena77
XXVIIOf How the Curate and the Barber Proceeded with Their Scheme, Together with Other Matters Worthy of Record in This Great History80
XXVIIIWhich Treats of the Strange and Delightful Adventure That Befell the Curate and the Barber In The Same Sierra81
XXIXWhich Treats of the Droll Device and Method Adopted to Extricate Our Love-stricken Knight from the Severe Penance He Had Imposed Upon Himself83
XXXWhich Treats of the Address Displayed by the Fair Dorothea, with Other Matters, Pleasant and Amusing88
XXXIOf the Delectable Discussion Between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, His Squire, Together with Other Incidents90
XXXII-XXXIVWhich Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote’s Party at the Inn91
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 an End92
XXXVIWhich Treats of More Curious Incidents That Occurred at the Inn95
XXXVIIIn Which Is Continued the Story of the Famous Princess Micomicona, with Other Droll Adventures98
XXXVIIIWhich Treats of the Curious Discourse Don Quixote Delivered on Arms and Letters102
XXXIX-XLIWherein the Captive Relates His Life and Adventures103
XLIIWhich Treats of What Further Took Place in the Inn, and of Several Other Things Worth Knowing108
XLIIIWherein Is Related the Pleasant Story of the Muleteer, Together With Other Strange Things That Came To Pass in the Inn112
XLIVIn Which Are Continued the Unheard-of Adventures at the Inn117
XLVIn Which the Doubtful Question of Mambrino’s Helmet and the Pack-saddle Is Finally Settled, with Other Adventures That Occurred in Truth and Earnest123
XLVIOf the End of the Notable Adventure of the Officers of the Holy Brotherhood; and of the Great Ferocity of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote127
XLVIIOf the Strange Manner in Which Don Quixote of La Mancha Was Carried Away Enchanted, Together with Other Remarkable Incidents132
XLVIIIIn Which the Canon Pursues the Subject of the Books of Chivalry, With Other Matters Worthy of His Wit137
XLIXWhich Treats of How Our Knight Is Permitted to Descend from His Cage, and of the Canon’s Attempt to Convert Him from His Illusions138
L-LIOf the Shrewd Controversy Which Don Quixote and the Canon Held, Together with Other Incidents139
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 Conclusion142

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