One day he decides to set out, taking with him an honest but simple farm labourer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, armed with a lance and a sword to right wrongs and rescue damsels. "The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it surfaces above lies, as oil on water."Don Quixote is a middle-aged man from the region of La Mancha in Spain obsessed with reading books about chivalrous knights errant. A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
An outline of key themes and plot points to help guide the reader’s own interpretations A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context A chronology of the author’s life and work A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
Along the way the duo meet a dazzling assortment of characters whose diverse beliefs and perspectives reveal how reality and imagination are frequently indistinguishable. Accompanied by his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, he travels throughout sixteenth century Spain seeking glory and grand adventure. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.Īn immediate success upon its publication and widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha, a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary.
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