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DON QUIXOTEOF THE MANCHA

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DON QUIXOTE TESTING HIS HELMET

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DON QUIXOTEOF THE MANCHA

RETOLD
BY

JUDGEPARRY

ILLUSTRATED
BY

WALTERCRANE

NEW YORK
JOHN LANE COMPANY
1919

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PREFACE

A version of Don Quixote which is appended to Mr.Walter Crane's illustrations needs perhaps no apology,but I desire to state briefly what I have endeavouredto do. No existing abridgment of Don Quixote,known to me, gives in simple narrative form the adventuresof Knight and Squire, with as much of thewisdom and humour of their discourse as would bewithin the grasp of the younger generation of readers.This—The Story of Don Quixote, as I call it—I havetried to produce. In doing it I have made use of allthe English translations, but the basis of this book isThomas Shelton's translation, the language of whichseems to me better to express the humour of Cervantesthan any other. Many will consider such a task inthe nature of sacrilege or, at the best, verging on theimpertinent. With these views I have much sympathymyself. But at least, let it be understood that allI have attempted to do is to tell a well-knownstory in print, as one who loves it would seek totell it in words, to those around his own fireside;in the hope that some may gather from this storythat there is a vast storehouse of humour and wisdomawaiting them in the book itself.

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