Books with author - Cervantes Saavedra

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Excerpt from The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentlemen Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 2 of 4: Translated From the Original SpanishC P. V Wbicb treat: of wbat 6421 Don qx ote's cwbole camping in tbc inn. P.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Translated by John Ormsby.Do you enjoy classic literature? Then you'll love Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes! it was first published in 1605 and is considered to be one of greatest novels of all time. Aren't you intrigued to find out why? This is the English translation. The book comes in two volumes. This is the second volume. Perhaps you read Don Quixote in school as a youth or maybe this is your first time reading Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece or maybe you're a teacher buying the book for your children's literature class. Either way, enjoy Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote today!

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...for they say walls have ears."--"What of my lady duchess?" cried Don Quixote; "tell me, madam Rodriguez, by my life."--"Thus conjured," the duenna replied, " I cannot but answer to whatever is asked me with all truth. Your worship, signor Don Quixote, must have observed the beauty of my lady duchess, that complexion like any bright and polished sword, those cheeks of milk and crimson, with the sun in the one and the moon in the other; that stateliness with which she treads, or rather disdains the very ground she walks on, that one would think she went dispensing health wherever she passes. Know then, sir, she may thank God for it, in the first place, and in the next, two fountains 544 she has, one in each leg, which discharge all the had humours of which the physicians say she is full."--" Holy Virgin!" cried Don Quixote, "is it possible my lady duchess has such drains? I should never have believed it had the bare-footed friars themselves told it me; but, since madam Donna Rodriguez says it, it must needs be so. But such fountains, and in such places, must distil nothing but liquid amber. Verily, I am now convinced that this making of fountains is a matter of great consequence in respect to health 645." Scarcely had Don Quixote said this, when the chamber door was thrown wide open. Surprise made Donna Rodriguez let fall her candle out of her hand, and the room remained as dark as pitch, as the saying is. Presently the poor duenna found herself griped so fast by the throat with two hands, that she could not squall; another person, very nimbly, without speaking a wordi whipped up her petticoats, and with a slipper, as it seemed, gave her so many slaps that it would have moved...

Excerpt from The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentlemen Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 2 of 4: Translated From the Original SpanishC P. V Wbicb treat: of wbat 6421 Don qx ote's cwbole camping in tbc inn. P.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.