Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Chapter 1
309 words | Chapter 1
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Don Quixote
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online
at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States,
you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located
before using this eBook.
Title: Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Translator: John Ormsby
Release date: July 27, 2004 [eBook #996]
Most recently updated: March 30, 2023
Language: English
Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
Credits: David Widger
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE ***
bookcover.jpg
Full Size
spine.jpg (152K)
Full Size
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated by John Ormsby
Ebook Editor’s Note
The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not
part of the original Ormsby translation—they are taken from the 1880
edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Clark in his
edition states that, “The English text of ‘Don Quixote’ adopted in this
edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux.”
See in the introduction below John Ormsby’s critique of both the Jarvis
and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project
Gutenberg edition to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Doré to
the Ormsby translation instead of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of
many of the Doré engravings can be fully appreciated only by utilizing
the “Full Size” button to expand them to their original dimensions.
Ormsby in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Doré’s
illustrations; others feel these woodcuts and steel engravings well
match Quixote’s dreams. D.W.
p003.jpg (307K)
Full Size
CONTENTS VOLUME I
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. INTRODUCTION
3. CHAPTER I WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND
4. CHAPTER II WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS
5. CHAPTER III
6. CHAPTER IV OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR
7. CHAPTER V IN
8. CHAPTER VI OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH
9. CHAPTER VII OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY
10. CHAPTER VIII
11. CHAPTER IX IN WHICH IS
12. CHAPTER X OF THE
13. CHAPTER XI OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
14. CHAPTER XII OF WHAT A
15. CHAPTER XIV WHEREIN ARE
16. CHAPTER XV IN WHICH
17. CHAPTER XVII IN WHICH
18. CHAPTER XVIII IN WHICH
19. CHAPTER XIX
20. CHAPTER XX OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND
21. CHAPTER XXI WHICH TREATS OF THE
22. CHAPTER XXIII OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA
23. CHAPTER XXIV IN WHICH IS CONTINUED
24. CHAPTER XXV
25. CHAPTER XXVI IN WHICH ARE
26. CHAPTER XXVII OF HOW
27. CHAPTER XXIX WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD
28. CHAPTER XXX WHICH
29. CHAPTER XXXI OF THE
30. CHAPTER XXXII
31. CHAPTER XXXIII IN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF “THE
32. CHAPTER XXXIV IN
33. CHAPTER XXXV WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS
34. CHAPTER XXXVII IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE
35. CHAPTER XXXVIII WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON
36. CHAPTER XLI IN WHICH THE CAPTIVE STILL
37. CHAPTER XLII WHICH
38. CHAPTER XLIII WHEREIN IS
39. CHAPTER XLIV
40. CHAPTER XLV IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO’S
41. CHAPTER XLVI
42. CHAPTER XLVII OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH
43. CHAPTER XLVIII IN WHICH
44. CHAPTER XLIX WHICH TREATS
45. CHAPTER L OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY
46. CHAPTER LI WHICH DEALS WITH WHAT THE GOATHERD TOLD THOSE
47. CHAPTER LII
48. CHAPTER I OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND
49. CHAPTER III OF THE LAUGHABLE
50. CHAPTER IV IN WHICH
51. CHAPTER V OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL
52. CHAPTER VII OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
53. CHAPTER VIII WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
54. CHAPTER X WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO
55. CHAPTER XI OF THE STRANGE
56. CHAPTER XII
57. CHAPTER XIII IN
58. CHAPTER XIV WHEREIN IS CONTINUED
59. CHAPTER XVI OF WHAT BEFELL DON
60. CHAPTER XIX IN WHICH IS RELATED THE
61. CHAPTER XX WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS
62. CHAPTER XXI IN WHICH
63. CHAPTER XXII WHEREIN IS RELATED THE GRAND
64. CHAPTER XXIII OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE
65. CHAPTER XXIV WHEREIN ARE RELATED
66. CHAPTER XXV
67. CHAPTER XXVI WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE
68. CHAPTER XXVII WHEREIN IT IS
69. CHAPTER XXIX
70. CHAPTER XXXII OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE
71. CHAPTER XXXIII OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE
72. CHAPTER XXXIV WHICH RELATES HOW THEY
73. CHAPTER XXXV WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN
74. CHAPTER XXXVI
75. CHAPTER XXXVIII WHEREIN IS TOLD THE
76. CHAPTER XXXIX IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER
77. CHAPTER XL
78. CHAPTER XLI OF THE ARRIVAL OF
79. CHAPTER XLII OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE
80. CHAPTER XLIII OF
81. CHAPTER XLIV HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS
82. CHAPTER XLV OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO
83. CHAPTER XLVI OF THE TERRIBLE BELL
84. CHAPTER XLVII
85. CHAPTER XLVIII OF WHAT
86. CHAPTER XLIX OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN
87. CHAPTER L
88. CHAPTER LI OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO’S GOVERNMENT,
89. CHAPTER LII
90. CHAPTER LIV WHICH DEALS
91. CHAPTER LV OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER
92. CHAPTER LVI
93. CHAPTER LVII WHICH TREATS OF
94. CHAPTER LVIII WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING
95. CHAPTER LIX WHEREIN IS
96. CHAPTER LX OF WHAT
97. CHAPTER LXII WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE
98. CHAPTER LXIII OF THE MISHAP THAT
99. CHAPTER LXIV
100. CHAPTER LXV
101. CHAPTER LXVII OF THE
102. CHAPTER LXVIII OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON
103. CHAPTER LXIX OF THE STRANGEST AND
104. CHAPTER LXX WHICH
105. CHAPTER LXXI
106. CHAPTER LXXII OF HOW DON
107. CHAPTER LXXIV OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK,
108. INTRODUCTION
109. CHAPTER I.
110. CHAPTER II.
111. CHAPTER III.
112. CHAPTER IV.
113. CHAPTER V.
114. CHAPTER VI.
115. CHAPTER VII.
116. CHAPTER VIII.
117. CHAPTER IX.
118. CHAPTER X.
119. CHAPTER XI.
120. CHAPTER XII.
121. CHAPTER XIII.
122. CHAPTER XIV.
123. CHAPTER XV.
124. CHAPTER XVI.
125. CHAPTER XVII.
126. CHAPTER XVIII.
127. CHAPTER XIX.
128. CHAPTER XX.
129. CHAPTER XXI.
130. CHAPTER XXII.
131. CHAPTER XXIII.
132. CHAPTER XXIV.
133. CHAPTER XXV.
134. CHAPTER XXVI.
135. CHAPTER XXVII.
136. CHAPTER XXVIII.
137. CHAPTER XXIX.
138. CHAPTER XXX.
139. CHAPTER XXXI.
140. CHAPTER XXXII.
141. CHAPTER XXXIII.
142. CHAPTER XXXIV.
143. CHAPTER XXXV.
144. CHAPTER XXXVI.
145. CHAPTER XXXVII.
146. CHAPTER XXXVIII.
147. CHAPTER XXXIX.
148. CHAPTER XL.
149. CHAPTER XLI.
150. part I should have been sorry if he had spoken to her, for perhaps it
151. CHAPTER XLII.
152. CHAPTER XLIII.
153. CHAPTER XLIV.
154. CHAPTER XLV.
155. CHAPTER XLVI.
156. CHAPTER XLVII.
157. CHAPTER XLVIII.
158. CHAPTER XLIX.
159. CHAPTER L.
160. CHAPTER LI.
161. CHAPTER LII.
162. CHAPTER I.
163. CHAPTER II.
164. CHAPTER III.
165. CHAPTER IV.
166. CHAPTER V.
167. CHAPTER VI.
168. CHAPTER VII.
169. CHAPTER VIII.
170. CHAPTER IX.
171. CHAPTER X.
172. CHAPTER XI.
173. CHAPTER XII.
174. CHAPTER XIII.
175. CHAPTER XIV.
176. CHAPTER XV.
177. CHAPTER XVI.
178. CHAPTER XVII.
179. CHAPTER XVIII.
180. CHAPTER XIX.
181. CHAPTER XX.
182. CHAPTER XXI.
183. CHAPTER XXII.
184. CHAPTER XXIII.
185. CHAPTER XXIV.
186. CHAPTER XXV.
187. CHAPTER XXVI.
188. CHAPTER XXVII.
189. CHAPTER XXVIII.
190. CHAPTER XXIX.
191. CHAPTER XXX.
192. CHAPTER XXXI.
193. CHAPTER XXXII.
194. CHAPTER XXXIII.
195. CHAPTER XXXIV.
196. CHAPTER XXXV.
197. CHAPTER XXXVI.
198. CHAPTER XXXVII.
199. CHAPTER XXXVIII.
200. CHAPTER XXXIX.
201. CHAPTER XL.
202. CHAPTER XLI.
203. CHAPTER XLII.
204. CHAPTER XLIII.
205. CHAPTER XLIV.
206. CHAPTER XLV.
207. CHAPTER XLVI.
208. CHAPTER XLVII.
209. CHAPTER XLVIII.
210. CHAPTER XLIX.
211. CHAPTER L.
212. CHAPTER LI.
213. CHAPTER LII.
214. CHAPTER LIII.
215. CHAPTER LIV.
216. CHAPTER LV.
217. CHAPTER LVI.
218. CHAPTER LVII.
219. CHAPTER LVIII.
220. CHAPTER LIX.
221. CHAPTER LX.
222. CHAPTER LXI.
223. CHAPTER LXII.
224. CHAPTER LXIII.
225. CHAPTER LXIV.
226. CHAPTER LXV.
227. CHAPTER LXVI.
228. CHAPTER LXVII.
229. CHAPTER LXVIII.
230. CHAPTER LXIX.
231. CHAPTER LXX.
232. CHAPTER LXXI.
233. CHAPTER LXXII.
234. CHAPTER LXXIII.
235. CHAPTER LXXIV.
Reading Tips
Use arrow keys to navigate
Press 'N' for next chapter
Press 'P' for previous chapter