Don Quixote of the Mancha, Retold by Judge Parry

Name: Don Quixote of the Mancha, Retold by Judge Parry
Author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Chivalry -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Juvenile fiction; Quests (Expeditions) -- Juvenile fiction; Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction; Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Juvenile fiction; Voyages, Imagina

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                              DON QUIXOTE
                             OF THE MANCHA




            [Illustration: DON QUIXOTE TESTING HIS HELMET]




                            [Illustration]

                              DON QUIXOTE
                             OF THE MANCHA

                                RETOLD
                                  BY
                                 JUDGE
                                 PARRY

                              ILLUSTRATED
                                  BY
                                WALTER
                                 CRANE

                               NEW YORK
                           JOHN LANE COMPANY
                                 1919




                                PREFACE


A version of _Don Quixote_ which is appended to Mr. Walter Crane's
illustrations needs perhaps no apology, but I desire to state briefly
what I have endeavoured to do. No existing abridgment of _Don Quixote_,
known to me, gives in simple narrative form the adventures of Knight
and Squire, with as much of the wisdom and humour of their discourse
as would be within the grasp of the younger generation of readers.
This—_The Story of Don Quixote_, as I call it—I have tried to
produce. In doing it I have made use of all the English translations,
but the basis of this book is Thomas Shelton's translation, the
language of which seems to me better to express the humour of Cervantes
than any other. Many will consider such a task in the nature of
sacrilege or, at the best, verging on the impertinent. With these views
I have much sympathy myself. But at least, let it be understood that
all I have attempted to do is to tell a well-known story in print, as
one who loves it would seek to tell it in words, to those around his
own fireside; in the hope that some may gather from this story that
there is a vast storehouse of humour and wisdom awaiting them in the
book itself.




                               CONTENTS


  CHAP.                                                   PAGE

  I. An Introduction to that famous gentleman, Don
  Quixote of the Mancha,                                     1

  II. Of the First Sally that Don Quixote made to
  seek Adventures,                                           7

  III. Of the Pleasant Manner of the Knighting of Don
  Quixote,                                                  14

  IV. Of what befell our Knight when he left the Inn,       21

  V. How Don Quixote returned home, and what happened
  to his Library, and how he sallied
  forth a second time to seek Adventures,                   30

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Don Quixote of the Mancha, Retold by Judge Parry

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