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Title: Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Translator: John Ormsby
Release date: July 27, 2004 [eBook #996]
Most recently updated: March 30, 2023
Language: English
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated by John Ormsby
Ebook Editor's Note
The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby translation--they are taken from the 1880
edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux."
See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project
Gutenberg edition to attach the famous …