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Don Quixote Of The Mancha: Introductory Note

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Cervantes, Miguel de

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Translation: Shelton, Thomas

Introductory Note

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born at Alcala de Henares in Spain in 1547, of a noble Castilian family. Nothing is certainly known of his education, but by the age of twenty-three we find him serving in the army as a private soldier. He was maimed for life at the battle of Lepanto, shared in a number of other engagements, and was taken captive by the Moors on his way home in 1575. After five years of slavery he was ransomed; and two or three years later he returned to Spain, and betook himself to the profession of ...

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