The Success of Cervantes's masterpiece,Don Quixote,was great and immediate,and its reputation soon spread beyond Spain,The Present volume contains the whole of the first part of the novel,which is complete in istelf,The importance of this great of novel is not merely,or mainly,that it put an end to the extravagant and outworn form of fiction,Loose in structure and uneven in workmanship,it remains unsurpassed as a masterpiece of droll humor,a picutue of Spanish life,as well as a gallery of immortal portraits.It is true of the life of the country of all great art,the successful combination of the partiular and the universal,It is true of the country and age of its production,and general human nature everywhere and always.compared with other the fiction of the Middle Ages,it is a triumphant satire,and compared with modern novels,it is the first and the most widely enjoned,As pertinent today as when it was first written,Don Quizote ranks among the great works of all time.
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
THE CONCLUSION
THE AUTHOR'S WAY OF SENDING FORTH HIS SECOND PART OF THE PILGRIM