Don Quixote
By: by Miguel de Cervantes; Ozell's revision of the translation of Peter Motteux; introduction by Hershel Brickell ...
Contributors: Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718, tr.; Ozell, John, d. 1743, ed.
Series: The modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: The Modern library
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 936
Description: Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. After a first failed adventure, he sets out on a second one with a somewhat befuddled laborer named Sancho Panza, whom he has persuaded to accompany him as his faithful squire. In return for Sanchoʹs services, Don Quixote promises to make Sancho the wealthy governor of an isle. On his horse, Rocinante, a barn nag well past his prime, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain in search of glory and grand adventure. He gives up food, shelter, and comfort, all in the name of a peasant woman, Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess.
Notes: "First modern library edition."