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Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • Humour
  • Book language: English
  • 234 pages

A collection of excerpts, maxims and humorous dialogues drawn from Cervantes's Don Quixote. It gathers the wit and homespun wisdom of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza as they journey and converse. Listeners can enjoy Cervantes's satire of chivalric romances and his reflections on idealism, common sense and human nature.

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CERVANTES.
CERVANTES.
Cervantes Monument in Madrid, Spain
WIT AND WISDOM
OF
DON QUIXOTE.
PATCH GRIEF WITH PROVERBS.-Shakespeare.
BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1882.
Copyright, 1882, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

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INDEX.
CERVANTES.
Abadexo, 9.
Adam, the first head scratched, 168.
Adventure of the dead body, 51.
Adventures of Esplandian, 17.
Alamos of Medina del Campo, 199.
Aldermen, the braying, 169.
Altisidora, songs of, 219, 265.
Amadis de Gaul, 4, 17.
Amadis de Greece, 19.
Arms, the honorable profession of, 173.
Araucana, 24.
Austriada, 24.
Bacallao, 9.
Barabbas, wife for, 115.
Barataria, the island of, 220, 223, 250.
Barber's basin, taken for Mambrino's helmet, 58.
Basilius the Poor, adventure of, 147.
Belfreys and palfreys much the same, 125.
Boar hunt, the, 182.
Bray, town of, 172.
Cane, the hollow, 227.
Carrasco, views upon critics, 109;
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made executor, 286.
Chrysostom, story of, 37;
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interment of, 41;
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song of, 45;
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epitaph upon, 49.
Clavileno, flight of, 203.

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Contents

  1. Wit and Wisdom
  2. Don Quixote.

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