HAROLD B LEE ufBRARY BRJGHAM YOUf^JG UNtVKRSITV PfK>VO. UTAH T^v^ KINGS TREASURIES OF LITER.ATURE GENERAL EDITOR Sir AT QUILLER COUCH ' ii ' ' r I 1 I I II I ! 1 1 II II ! g w I I Ml iim" I w m ii nil ?> » i> y iTTTTni^ .:i_^_____^_ I O O O O OOP OOP o o o o o ADVENTURES ! of DON QUIXOTE i I SELECTED Si EDITED BY ? EALECWOOLF dlitt o o o oooo oooo oo o ooooo P s Ki^\j!in// H^x^^^^ i ^M^^^^ Wu^r^^^^^"fOBnr^ ,^^\^?^^5i ^P^^^^^ W^^ 9jJ^^J^*g^^ x?B^^yyj[^^^5jiffi\v J ^S^^'K5^^^*'<^3*^Wk 3^^ 'tyLj w*T^y]XJywry?~^A ^flW jB^^^^wVti^iiff^ iwirrS 132 ,V ,.J^.^^.^^JV ^.-v^ J.K~^.•'^r>,\^J^s-^.\.JLy^ NEW YORK EPDUTTON AND COMPAiDENT& SONS LTD • LONDON & TORONTO 1 All rights reserved First Published in this Edition . 192 Reprinted ..... 1923, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1930 THE LTBRART PROVO, UTAH PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE Introduction 7 - I. The Quality and Manner of Life of the Re- nowned Hero ...... 15 11. The First Sally that Don Quixote made from his Native Village ..... 21 III. The Pleasant Method Don Quixote took to be DUBBED Knight ...... 27 IV. What Befel our Knight after he had Sallied from the Inn ...... 35 V. The Narration of our Knight's Misfortune . 41 VI. The Priest and the Barber in the Library of OUR Ingenious Gentleman . , , . 47 Vll. The Adventure of the Windmills . 54 VIII. Don Quixote and his Good Squire, Sancho Panza ........ 65 IX. The Adventure with Certain Unmerciful Yan- GUESIANS ....... 71 - X. Don Quixote in the Inn which he imagined to BE A Castle ...... 74 XL The Disasters in the Inn 82 XII. The Adventure of the Flock of Sheep • 90 XIII. The Adventure of the Fulling Mills 98 XIV. The Grand Adventure of Mambrino's Helmet 106 XV. The Adventure of the Galley-Slaves 112 XVI. The Dispute concerning Mambrino's Helmet AND THE PaNNEL: AND OTHER ADVENTURES 126 5 6 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE XVII. The Knight and the Canon . • • • 135 XVIII. The Rare Adventure of the Disciplinants . 139 XIX. Conversation between the Curate, the Barber and Don Quixote ..... 149 XX. Of the Pleasant Conversation between Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and Sampson Car- RAsco ....... 158 XXI. The Conversation between Sancho Panza and HIS Wife Theresa ..... 168 XXII. Don Quixote visits his Lady Dulcinea del Toboso ....... 175 XXIII. The Cunning used by Sancho in Enchanting the Lady Dulcinea ..... " " XXIV. Adventure with the Brayers . XXV. The Adventure of the Enchanted Bark XXVI. Defeat of Don Quixote. .... XXVII. The Vanquished Knight begins the Journey Homeward . 211 — XXVIII. Don Quixote Arrives at Home His Death . 217 Commentary— Don Quixote and Chivalry . , • , . .230 Cervantes ........ 235 Questions and Exercises ..•••• 247 ^^ INTRODUCTION To appreciate Don Quixote, we have no need for lengthy introductions. To understand him, read, and appreciation will come. Cervantes wished to reveal in their true light, the farcical, extravagant, nonsensical Libros de Caballeria (Books on Knight-Errantry), which put forth a false ideal, ignoring the true chivalry of a true knight, and by this false ideal did great harm in Spain. The result was Don Quixote, which is at the same time a novel, a satire, a history and a picture of Spanish life. Do not think that Cer- vantes mocked the great ideals of chivalry. He loved truth, uprightness and courage—his own career proves this—but he wished to show that valour, generosity, hope and justice were the bases of chivalric life. Don Quixote has been thought to be mad, but if mad- ness consists in going through the world seeking to combat ignorance, cruelty, superstition and roguery, we must confess that he was not sane, and saw life in a mirage of the vicious books on chivalry. Sancho Panza is a very human personage. He is a peasant, ignorant but shrewd, who accompanies a master keen to fight injustice, knavery, and to pro- tect the poor and the humble, but who, with a greater knowledge of mankind, tries to protect him from those self-seekers who might impose upon his good nature and his eagerness to help the oppressed. Now read for yourself, and you will understand 7 8 INTRODUCTION why Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful servant Sancho Panza have become the friends and companions of all who love good hterature. If you look at a map of Spain, you will notice that it is divided into districts which correspond roughly to our English counties. At one time the whole of Spain was overrun by the Moors, who conquered and settled in every part except in one small mountain province known as the Asturias. Here the Spaniards made so fine a resistance that the Moors were glad to let them alone and, crossing the Pyrenees, attempted to conquer France. This was the summit of their attainment ; they withdrew to the limit set by the great mountain chain and settled in Spain. The Moors did not rule harshly, and in many ways theirs was a model government, but the Christians could not brook being governed by those whom they con- sidered to be infidels. They strove continuously to shake off the foreign yoke, and to a certain extent were successful. The kingdoms of Leon, Castile, Navarre, Aragon and Galicia (you can still see these names on the map) were set up out of the reconquered territory, and the war against the Moors partook of the nature of a crusade. Naturally, in such a war which continued over several centuries, there arose great heroes and great deeds were performed which were fitly celebrated by minstrels and so were per- petuated. The greatest of these heroes was Rodrigo Diaz of Bivar, who was known as El Campeador, or champion, and who, through his prowess, bore the INTRODUCTION 9 title of El Cid, So great was his fame, and so many and varied were his deeds, that they would fill many volumes. He made himself so feared that when he died at the siege of Valencia, his dead body, on his equally famous horse, Babieca, so terrified the Moors that they fled, allowing his faithful knights to bring the corpse to Burgos. The crusades led to the development of the idea of chivalry, with its teachings of knightly honour, succour of the oppressed, courtesy to women, and courage; but with the invention of gunpowder, the low-bom peasant became the equal in warfare of the mail-clad knight, and the great ideals of chivalry gradually passed away. In Spain, however, cut off from the rest of Europe and engaged in a national war against a heathen enemy, the ideals of chivalry lived on. The arrival in Castile of the two greatest knights of the fourteenth century, Edward the Black Prince and the French Bertrand du GuescUn, each followed by a large body of famous knights, helped to keep alive the ideals, and the deeds of these heroes seemed to be more than human, passing into legend. The wars in Spain had led to the creation of mili- tary orders such as those of Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara, whose members took an oath to fight on until the final expulsion of the Moors. The keen struggles and the many individual combats gave rise to the stories which, on the invention of printing, were gathered together in the Libros de Caballeria, or Books of Knightly Deeds. These were based upon the stories of Arthur and the Knights of the Round 10 INTRODUCTION Table, which had always been well known in Spain, and other stories of great knights similar to those of Merlin, Lancelot, Bedivere and Gareth were in- vented. To the Spaniards these were not merety stories. They firmly believed in knights who went through the world seeking to do right, and rescuing forlorn damsels; they believed in giants, wizards, dragons, enchanted castles and all the other accom- paniments of this kind of story. The knights-errant lived in their minds, and their high ideals set a definite standard of conduct in life which was of very great importance in those days, when Spain was in need of all the knights who saw in the war against the Moors a truly chivalrous war, in which they could rescue the damsel Christianity from the ogre of the Moorish rule. There was one story which was the basis of all the succeeding books of chivalry, and since the plots of all were very similar, here is that of Amadis of Gaul, The wonderful enthusiasm of the Spanish people at the conquest of Granada in 1492 gave rise to many songs and stories, but the chief and most popular was that of Amadis. He was the son of Perion, King of Gaul, and of Elizena, formerly a princess of England, but as a child he was abandoned on the sea-shore. There he was discovered by a Scottish knight and taken to Britain. In England, Amadis falls in love with '' the peerless light of Perfection,'' Oriana, daughter of Lisarte, King of England. Mean- while Perion and Elizena had another son, Galaor, who sets out to find his brother. When the twain INTRODUCTION ii meet they decide to seek their fortune in France, and thence to travel through other countries in search of adventure. Their great combats, adventures, and encounters with other knights, giants, magicians and ogres are recounted in full, but they survive all dangers and in the end Amadis returns to marry Oriana. This book was received with great favour because the people of that time were in a hero-worshipping mood.