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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616)

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  • Reading level: 10th to 12th grade

"The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is part of a novel originally published in 1605. It follows Alonso Quijano, a nobleman who loses his sanity from reading too many chivalric romances and reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote. Accompanied by his pragmatic squire Sancho Panza, he embarks on absurd adventures, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles. This masterwork explores the collision between fantasy and reality, transforming both companions in unexpected ways.

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  • Spain · Social life and customs · 16th century
  • Knights and knighthood · Spain
  • Picaresque literature
  • Romances

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Chapter VI

OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN

He was still sleeping; so the curate asked the niece for the keys of the room where the books, the authors of all the mischief, were, and right willingly she gave them. They all went in, the housekeeper with them, and found more than a hundred volumes of big books very well bound, and some other small ones. The moment the housekeeper saw them she turned about and ran out of the room, and came back immediately with a saucer of holy water and a sprinkler, saying, "Here, your worship, senor licentiate, sprinkle this room; don't leave any magician of the many there are in these books to bewitch us in revenge for our design of banishing them from the world."

The simplicity of the housekeeper made the licentiate laugh, and he directed the barber to give him the books one by one to see what they were about, as there might be some to be found among them that did not deserve the penalty of fire.

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Contents

  1. Part 3
  2. Chapter VI
  3. Chapter VII: Of the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha
  4. Chapter VIII

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This free edition of The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #5905, released 2004-06-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Novels, Classics of Literature.

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