A simple re-telling of an important book, considered by many to be the first modern novel. The tale is a mixture of tragedy and comedy centring on the mad character of Don Quixote.
This book is part of a book series called Usborne Classics Retold .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
This book was published 2014 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .
This book contains the following story:
Don Quixote
This is the story of Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances he loses his grip on reality, coming to believe these tales involving the heroic exploits of mounted knights to be true. He takes up the lance and armour of a knight himself, renames himself Don Qixote, and embarks upon epic adventures across Spain, with the role of squire taken up by his servant Sancho Panza. The adventures include a number of humorous scenes, whereby Quixote charges at windmills which he perceives as ferocious giants, and stays at an inn which he perceives to be a mighty castle.
This book is in the following series:
Usborne Classics Retold
These simplified and shortened retellings make great literary classics accessible. Each remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story.
This book features the following character:
Don Quixote
