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Don Quixote de la Mancha
Also spelled Don Quijote.
Fictitious character, created by the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who is a poor gentleman of La Mancha, the bare and monotonous plateau of central Spain. He read so many of the exaggerated romances of chivalry of his day that he finally believed them to be true.
One day he set forth himself as a knight-errant on his old horse, Rosinante. A shrewd, good-natured peasant of his village, Sancho Panza, went with him as his squire.
Don Quixote regarded everything he saw as extraordinary. Inns were castles and windmills were giants.
The word "quixotic," meaning impractical and idealistic, and the phrase "tilting at a windmill," meaning to fight against an imaginary difficulty, have become part of our language through 'Don Quixote'.
The book was published in 1605, when Cervantes was 57. Despite its huge success, he received little money because of widespread pirating. While the fame of 'Don Quixote' spread through Europe, Cervantes lived in poverty, dependent upon rich patrons. He published the second part of 'Don Quixote' in 1615 and died the following year.
See An Analytical and Bibliographical Guide to Criticism on Don Quijote (1790-1893), Approaches to Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote, Chivalric World of Don Quixote: Style, Structure and Narrative Technique, Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition), Man of La Mancha, The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature), The History of That Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha, Glastonbury, Camelot, Lyonesse, Mystic Gifts and Charms - New Age Gift Shop & Wicca and Pagan Supplies, Love Spells -- Use these powerful love spells to help you find and keep your true love, The Tarot Store, The Chakra Store, Divination & Scrying Tools and Supplies, Unique Amulets, Talismans, Good Luck Charms, and Love Tokens, Powerful Witch Doctor Spell Kits, Powerful Spells - Cast by Andreika the Witch, Webmasters Make $$$, AzureGreen - Celebrating All Paths to the Divine, ISIS - Tools for Your Soul's Journey, and The Pyramid Collection - Myth, Magick, Fantasy and Romance.
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