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 partof the original Ormsby translation—they are taken from the 1880edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Clark in hisedition states that, “The English text of ‘Don Quixote’ adopted in thisedition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux.”See in the introduction below John Ormsby’s critique of both the Jarvisand Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present ProjectGutenberg edition to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Doré to theOrmsby translation instead of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many ofthe Doré engravings can be fully appreciated only by utilizing the “FullSize” button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby in hisPreface has criticized the fanciful nature of Doré’s illustrations;others feel these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote’sdreams.            D.W.