# Don Quixote — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

- [Translator's Preface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/translator-s-preface.md): The translator provides an introduction to the work, discussing the challenges and philosophy of translating Cervantes' classic, and setting the stage for the reader's engagement with the text.
- [About This Translation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/i-about-this-translation.md): The translator discusses the history of English translations of Don Quixote, critiquing various versions from Shelton to Duffield, and explains his own approach to producing a faithful translation that respects the origi
- [II: About Cervantes and Don Quixote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/ii-about-cervantes-and-don-quixote.md): This chapter provides a critical analysis of Don Quixote's character, arguing that he lacks individuality and is merely a mouthpiece for chivalric ideals. It contrasts his madness with his virtue, discusses Sancho Panza'
- [Don Quixote Part I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/don-quixote.md): The first part of Don Quixote introduces Alonso Quixano, a man who loses his mind from reading chivalric romances and reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote. He embarks on his first sally, gets dubbed a knigh
- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-dedication.md): Cervantes dedicates his work to the Duke of Béjar, praising his patronage of the arts and seeking his protection for the book.

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- [Some Commendatory Verses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-some-commendatory-verses.md)
- [Chapter II: Which treats of the first sally the ingenious Don Quixote made from home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-iii.md)
- [Of what happened to our knight when he left the inn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-v.md)
- [Of the diverting and important scrutiny which the curate and the barber made in the library of our ingenious gentleman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-vi.md)
- [Of the second sally of our worthy knight Don Quixote of La Mancha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII: Of the good success which the valorous Don Quixote had in the most terrifying and never-to-be-imagined adventure of the windmills, with other events worthy of happy memory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-viii.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-ix.md)
- [Of the pleasant discourse that passed between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV: The Unfortunate Adventure with the Yanguesans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xviii.md)
- [XIX: Of the shrewd discourse which Sancho held with his master, and of the adventure that befell him with a dead body, together with other notable occurrences.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xix.md)
- [Of the unexampled and unheard-of adventure which was achieved by the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha with less peril than any ever achieved by any famous knight in the world](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xx.md)
- [Which treats of the exalted adventure and rich prize of Mambrino's helmet, together with other things that happened to our invincible knight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxi.md)
- [Of the freedom Don Quixote conferred on several unfortunates who against their will were being carried where they had no wish to go](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxii.md)
- [Of what befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, which was one of the rarest adventures related in this veracious history](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv.md)
- [Which treats of the strange things that happened to the stout knight of La Mancha in the Sierra Morena, and of his imitation of the penance of Beltenebros](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxvi.md)
- [Of how the curate and the barber proceeded with their scheme; together with other matters worthy of record in this great history.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII Which treats of the strange and delightful adventure that befell the curate and the barber in the same Sierra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii.md)
- [Chapter XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxix.md)
- [Chapter XXX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxx.md)
- [Of the delectable discussion between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, his squire, together with other incidents.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxi.md)
- [XXXII Which treats of what befell Don Quixote's party at the inn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxii.md)
- [The Ill-Advised Curiosity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiii.md)
- [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxiv.md)
- [Which treats of the heroic and prodigious battle Don Quixote had with certain skins of red wine, and brings the novel of The Ill-Advised Curiosity to a close.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxv.md)
- [XXXVI Which treats of more curious incidents that occurred at the inn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxvi.md)
- [XXXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxvii.md)
- [Which treats of the curious discourse Don Quixote delivered on arms and letters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxviii.md)
- [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xxxix.md)
- [XL](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xl.md)
- [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xli.md)
- [XLII Which treats of what further took place in the inn, and of several other things worth knowing.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xlii.md)
- [Chapter XLIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xliii.md)
- [Chapter XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xliv.md)
- [In which the doubtful question of Mambrino's helmet and the packsaddle is finally settled, with other adventures that occurred in truth and earnest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xlv.md)
- [Of the end of the notable adventure of the officers of the holy brotherhood; and of the great ferocity of our worthy knight, Don Quixote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xlvi.md)
- [Of the strange manner in which Don Quixote of La Mancha was carried away enchanted, together with other remarkable incidents](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xlvii.md)
- [XLVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xlviii.md)
- [XLIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-xlix.md)
- [Of the shrewd controversy which Don Quixote and the canon held, together with other incidents.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-l.md)
- [LI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-li.md)
- [LII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-i-lii.md)
- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-dedication.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-ii.md)
- [Of the laughable conversation that passed between Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the bachelor Samson Carrasco](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-iii.md)
- [IV In which Sancho Panza gives a satisfactory reply to the doubts and questions of the bachelor Samson Carrasco, together with other matters worth knowing and telling.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-iv.md)
- [Of the shrewd and droll conversation that passed between Sancho Panza and his wife Teresa Panza, and other matters worthy of being duly recorded](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-v.md)
- [Of what took place between Don Quixote and his niece and housekeeper; one of the most important chapters in the whole history.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-vii.md)
- [Wherein is related what befell Don Quixote on his way to see his lady Dulcinea del Toboso](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-viii.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-ix.md)
- [Wherein is related the crafty device Sancho adopted to enchant the lady Dulcinea, and other incidents as ludicrous as they are true](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-x.md)
- [Of the strange adventure which the valiant Don Quixote had with the car or cart of the Cortes of Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xi.md)
- [Of the strange adventure which befell the valiant Don Quixote with the bold Knight of the Mirrors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii.md)
- [Wherein is continued the adventure of the Knight of the Grove](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xvi.md)
- [Wherein is shown the furthest and highest point which the unexampled courage of Don Quixote reached or could reach; together with the happily achieved adventure of the lions.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xvii.md)
- [Of what happened Don Quixote in the castle or house of the Knight of the Green Gabán, together with other matters out of the common](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii.md)
- [In which is related the adventure of the enamoured shepherd, together with other truly droll incidents.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xix.md)
- [Wherein an account is given of the wedding of Camacho the Rich, together with the incident of Basilio the Poor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xx.md)
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxi.md)
- [XXII Wherin is related the grand adventure of the Cave of Montesinos in the heart of La Mancha, which the valiant Don Quixote brought to a happy termination.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxii.md)
- [Of the wonderful things the incomparable Don Quixote said he saw in the profound Cave of Montesinos, the impossibility and magnitude of which cause this adventure to be deemed apocryphal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii.md)
- [Wherein are related a thousand trifling matters, as trivial as they are necessary to the right understanding of this great history](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv.md)
- [Chapter XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv.md)
- [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi.md)
- [Wherein it is shown who Master Pedro and his ape were, together with the mishap Don Quixote had in the braying adventure, which he did not conclude as he would have liked or as he had expected.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvii.md)
- [Chapter XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxviii.md)
- [Of the famous adventure of the enchanted bark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix.md)
- [Of Don Quixote’s adventure with a fair huntress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxx.md)
- [XXXI Which treats of many and great matters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxi.md)
- [Of the reply Don Quixote gave his censurer, with other incidents, grave and droll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxii.md)
- [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiii.md)
- [XXXIV Which relates how they learned the way in which they were to disenchant the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, which is one of the rarest adventures in this book.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxiv.md)
- [Wherein is continued the instruction given to Don Quixote touching the disenchantment of Dulcinea, together with other marvellous incidents](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxv.md)
- [Wherein is related the strange and undreamt-of adventure of the distressed Duenna, alias the countess Trifaldi, together with a letter which Sancho Panza wrote to his wife, Teresa Panza.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvi.md)
- [Wherein is continued the notable adventure of the distressed Duenna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxvii.md)
- [XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxviii.md)
- [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xxxix.md)
- [XL](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xl.md)
- [Of the arrival of Clavileño and the end of this protracted adventure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xli.md)
- [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xlii.md)
- [Of the second set of counsels Don Quixote gave Sancho Panza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xliii.md)
- [XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xliv.md)
- [Of how the great Sancho Panza took possession of his island, and of how he made a beginning in governing.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xlv.md)
- [Of the terrible bell and cat fright that Don Quixote got in the course of the enamoured Altisidora's wooing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xlvi.md)
- [XLVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xlvii.md)
- [Of what befell Don Quixote with Doña Rodriguez, the duchess’s Duenna, together with other occurrences worthy of record and eternal remembrance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xlviii.md)
- [Of what happened Sancho in making the round of his island](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-xlix.md)
- [Chapter L](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-l.md)
- [Chapter LI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-li.md)
- [Wherein is related the adventure of the second distressed or afflicted Duenna, otherwise called Doña Rodriguez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lii.md)
- [Of the troublous end and termination Sancho Panza's government came to.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-liii.md)
- [LIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-liv.md)
- [Of what befell Sancho on the road, and other things that cannot be surpassed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lv.md)
- [Of the prodigious and unparalleled battle that took place between Don Quixote of La Mancha and the Lackey Tosilos in defence of the daughter of Doña Rodriguez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lvi.md)
- [LVII Which treats of how Don Quixote took leave of the duke, and of what followed with the witty and impudent Altisidora, one of the duchess’s damsels.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lvii.md)
- [Which tells how adventures came crowding on Don Quixote in such numbers that they gave one another no breathing-time.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lviii.md)
- [Chapter LIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lix.md)
- [LX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lx.md)
- [Of what happened Don Quixote on entering Barcelona, together with other matters that partake of the true rather than of the ingenious](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxi.md)
- [LXII Which deals with the adventure of the enchanted head, together with other trivial matters which cannot be left untold.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxii.md)
- [Of the mishap that befell Sancho Panza through the visit to the galleys, and the strange adventure of the fair Morisco](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxiii.md)
- [LXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxiv.md)
- [Wherein is made known who the Knight of the White Moon was; likewise Don Gregorio's release, and other events](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxv.md)
- [Which treats of what he who reads will see, or what he who has it read to him will hear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxvi.md)
- [Of the resolution Don Quixote formed to turn shepherd and take to a life in the fields while the year for which he had given his word was running its course; with other events truly delectable and happy.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxvii.md)
- [Of the bristly adventure that befell Don Quixote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxviii.md)
- [Chapter LXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxix.md)
- [LXX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxx.md)
- [Of what passed between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho on the way to their village](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxxi.md)
- [Of how Don Quixote and Sancho reached their village](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxxii.md)
- [Of the omens Don Quixote had as he entered his own village, and other incidents that embellish and give a colour to this great history](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxxiii.md)
- [LXXIV: Of how Don Quixote fell sick, and of the will he made, and how he died](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/part-ii-lxxiv.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_quixote_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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