Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) 唐·吉诃德，英文原版

Cervantes'taleofthederangedgentlemanwhoturnsknight-errant,tiltsatwindmillsandbattleswithsheepintheserviceoftheladyofhisdreams,DulcineadelToboso,hasfascinatedgenerationsofreaders,andinspiredothercreativeartistssuchasFlaubert,PicassoandRichardStrauss.Thetall,thinknightandhisshort,fatsquire,SanchoPanza,havefoundtheirwayintofilms,cartoonsandevencomputergames.Supposedlyintendedasaparodyofthemostpopularescapistfictionoftheday,the'booksofchivalry',thisprecursorofthemodernnovelbroadenedanddeepenedintoasophisticated,comicaccountofthecontradictionsofhumannature.Cervantes'greatestworkcanbeenjoyedonmanylevels,allsuffusedwithasubtleironythatreachesouttoencompassthereader.

TranslatedbyCharlesJarvis,andeditedwithanIntroductionbyE.C.Riley,ProfessorEmeritusofHispanicStudies,UniversityofEdinburgh

PART ONE

THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE READER

BOOK Ⅰ

Ⅰ The quality and manner of life of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha

Ⅱ Of Don Quixote’s first Sally

Ⅲ An Account of the pleasant method taken by Don Quixote to be dubbed a Knight

Ⅳ What befell the Knight after he had left the inn

Ⅴ A further Account of our Knight’s Mioeortunes

Ⅵ Of the pleasant and curious scrutiny with the Curate and the Barber made of the Library of our ingenious Gentleman

Ⅶ Don Quixote’s second Sally in quest of Adventure

Ⅷ Of the good success which the valorous Don Quixote had in the most terrifying and never-to-be-imagined Adventure of the Wind-Mills, with other transactions worthy to be transmitted to posterity

BOOK Ⅱ

Ⅰ The event of the most stupendous Combat between the brave Biscainer and the valorous Don Quixote

Ⅱ What farther befell Don Quixote with the Biscainer; and of the danger he ran among a parcel of Yanguesians

Ⅲ What passed between Don Quixote and the Goatherd

Ⅳ The Story which a young Goatherd told to those that were

with Don Quixote

Ⅴ A continuation of the Story of Marcella

Ⅵ The unfortunate Shepherd’s Verses and other unexpected matters

BOOK Ⅲ

Ⅰ Giving an Account of Don Quixote’s unfortunate Rencounter with certain bloody-minded and wicked Yanguesian Carriers

Ⅱ What happened to Don Quixote in the inn which he took

for a Castle

Ⅲ AfurtherAccount of the innumerable Hardships which the brave Don Quixote, and his worthy Squire Sancho, underwent in the inn

Ⅳ Of the Discourse between the Knight and the Squire, with other matters worth relating

Ⅴ Of the wise Discourse between Sancho and his Master; as also of the Adventure of the Dead Corpse, and other famous Occurrences

Ⅵ Of a wonderful Adventure achieved by the valorous Don Quixote de la Mancha; the like never compassed with less danger by any of the most famous Knights in the World

　Ⅶ Of the high Adventure and Conquest of Mambrino’s Helmet, with other Events relating to our invincible Knight

Ⅷ How Don Quixote set free many miserable creatures, who were carrying, much against their wills, to a place they did not like

BOOK Ⅳ

PART TWO