Books published by publisher P F COLLIER

Interspersed among these adventures are a series of stories and moral tales, illustrating the pastoral storytelling tradition in Spain. As well, there are two long, learned disquisitions, delivered by Quixote. The first is a description of the Golden Age of mythology, told during a supper shared with some unlettered goatherds who don't understand a word he says. Later on, Quixote addresses a company during dinner at an inn in a debate about whether the career of arms is superior to that of letters, or vice versa. Throughout the adventures it becomes clear that Quixote, for all his seeming madness, is a mild-mannered, empathetic man, genuine in his concern for chivalric ideals. Although he has agendas of his own, Sancho Panza has come to believe in and show loyalty to his new master. But in spite of all his good intentions, Quixote's quest leads him to be returned home, imprisoned in a cage on an ox-cart by his village priest and barber for Don Quixote's own good.

Stories include: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin; Jackanapes by Julina Horatia Ewing; A Midsummer Night's Dresm by Charles and Mary Lamb; The Gold Bug by Edgr Allan Poe; Tales from the Travels of Baron Munchausen by Rudolph Eric Raspe; Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput by Jonathan Swift; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving; and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Nicely illustrated.