Don Quixote

John Ormsby's translation, 1885. 130 parts, about 422,470 words, 32 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for…
Part 1, chapter 1 · Read it in Part I, Chapter I
Sancho points out that the giants are windmills, and Quixote answers that the enchanter Freston turned them into windmills to rob him of the glory of the victory.
Part 1, chapter 8 · Read it in Part I, Chapter VIII
Beaten and unable to prove anything about Dulcinea, he tells the merchants only that he knows who he is.
Part 1, chapter 5 · Read it in Part I, Chapter V
In Part Two the Duke and Duchess, who have read Part One, build entire theatrical adventures for the pair, and Sancho is made governor of an island as a joke that stops being funny.
Part 2, chapters 30 to 53 · Read it in Part II, Chapter XXX
In last year's nests there are no birds this year.
Part 2, chapter 74 · Read it in Part II, Chapter LXXIV

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Standard Ebooks edition is released under CC0. Translated by John Ormsby. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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