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Don Quixote (Vol. 1, Part 1, Ch. 1-2), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Apr 18, 2022 • 29m

Reading too many romances of knights and valorous deeds caused a poor Spanish gentleman to polish up his great-grandfather's armor, rechristen his old nag, and sally forth. "Don Quixote," besides holding a secure niche in literature as the work that quashed the romantic school of knight-errantry, is at the same time one of the most widely-read stories in the world. (Volume 14, Harvard Classics)

Cervantes receives the last sacraments April 18, 1616.

 

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