World Literature Masterpieces Series for Young Readers -- Don Quixote (Full Color Edition)

Author: Miguel de Cervantes (Spain), adapted by Ren Aoshuang
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Publish Date: 2007-07-01
Features: This series of "Youth Essential Reads in World Literature Classics" has put considerable effort into selecting the booklist, and it is then summarized by a group of authors deeply immersed in literature. This kind of abridgment must be faithful to the original works while presenting them in a simple and concise form so that students with diverse interests can read and enjoy them easily. Some students who read this series may discover which parts they are most interested in and can then further explore the original works. Thus, the distillation of essence becomes a bridge for further in-depth study.
Don Quixote is one of the most internationally renowned and influential Spanish literary masterpieces and also one of the greatest works of Western literature. It is a milestone in the history of European novel development. Cervantes' masterpiece is a satirical novel about chivalry, divided into two volumes. The novel depicts the protagonist, Don Quixote, who, obsessed with chivalric romances, becomes delusional and decides to go on adventures as a knight-errant. He recruits a peasant from his village, Sancho Panza, as his squire, and takes a farmer's daughter from the neighboring village, Dulcinea del Toboso, as his ideal love. He embarks on three adventures, where he does many absurd things. In the end, he is defeated by his friends disguised as the Knight of the White Moon, abandons his quest for knight-errantry, and falls ill shortly after returning home. On his deathbed, he realizes his mistake in being too to chivalric romances.