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Widely regarded as one of the most important works ever written in Spanish and undoubtedly ahead of its time, "The ingenious gentleman don Quixote of la Mancha" chronicles the adventures of Alonso Quijano who, obsessed with the then popular stories of knights errant, convinces himself that he can live up to said knights and ventures into 17th century Spain, looking for injustices to amend.

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Widely regarded as one of the most important works ever written in Spanish and undoubtedly ahead of its time, "The ingenious gentleman don Quixote of la Mancha" chronicles the adventures of Alonso Quijano who, obsessed with the then popular stories of knights errant, convinces himself that he can live up to said knights and ventures into 17th century Spain, looking for injustices to amend.

The novel is composed of two volumes. The first one contains don Quixote's first two escapes: an initial, short one, which serves as a prelude and the second, in which don Quixote travels in the company of his squire, Sancho Panza. The first volume is, mainly, a parody of the literature the main character devours, mixed with traces of social criticism.
The second volume, published ten years later, tells of the gentleman's third and last journey and is much more ambitious. While keeping his original intentions, Cervantes focuses on don Quixote's slow disappointment with a world which he is unable to make any sense of and which keeps mocking and taking advantadge of him until his very death.

This Spanish digital edition has been composed taking as a reference the 1911-1913 edition by Madrid, Ediciones de La Lectura, adapting it for e-books.

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Ampliamente considerada como una de las obras m�s importantes jam�s escritas en espa�ol e indudablemente una de las obras m�s adelantadas a su tiempo, "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" narra las andanzas de Alonso Quijano, qui�n, obsesionado por los relatos de caballeros andantes tan populares en la �poca, se convence de que �l mismo puede estar a la altura de dichos caballeros y decide aventurarse por la Espa�a del siglo XVII, siempre intentando detectar y enmendar injusticias.

La novela est� compuesta de dos tomos. El primero narra las dos primeras salidas de don Quijote: el primer viaje es muy breve y sirve de preludio y en el segundo don Quijote cuenta ya con la compa��a del que ser� su escudero Sancho Panza. �ste primer tomo es, fundamentalmente, una parodia de la literatura que el propio protagonista consum�a mezclada con un poco de cr�tica social. El segundo tomo, diez a�os posterior, narra la tercera y �ltima salida del hidalgo y va mucho m�s all�. Manteniendo vivo el esp�ritu del primero, se centra m�s en c�mo don Quijote poco a poco se va desencantando con un mundo que, no solamente no consigue comprender, sino que adem�s se burla de �l y lo utiliza sin piedad hasta el momento de su muerte.

La presente edici�n digital ha sido preparada bas�ndose en la edici�n de Madrid, Ediciones de La Lectura, 1911-1913, para una lectura optimizada en lectores de libros electr�nicos.

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