title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Don Quixote: an up-to-date translation for today's readers.
author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
description: James Montgomery is a retired university librarian who has had a life-long fascination with Don Quixote. A professor of Spanish before embarking upon a career in Library Science, he has pursued graduate studies in Spanish at the University of North Carolina, UCLA, the University of Havana, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of Mexico. He has devoted 21 years to the preparation of his translation, during which time he has meticulously studied the 15 most notable translations in the English language in an effort to make this version the authoritative one in English. He makes his home in Austin, Texas, where his son is on the faculty of the University of Texas
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  > Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
  >  
  >
  
  THE INGENIOUS HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA
  
   _Translated with an Introduction and Notes by_  
   _John Rutherford_
  
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  Contents
  
  > > Introduction
  
  > > A Note on the Text
  
  > >  _The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha_
  
  > > PART I
  
  > > Prologue
  
  > > Chapter I: _Concerning the famous hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha’s
  > position, character and way of life_
  
  > > Chapter II: _Concerning the ingenious Don Quixote’s first sally_
  
  > > Chapter III: _Which relates the amusing way in which Don Quixote had
  > himself knighted_
  
  > > Chapter IV: _About what happened to our knight when he left the inn_
  
  > > Chapter V: _In which the story of our knight’s misfortune is continued_
  
  > > Chapter VI: _About the amusing and exhaustive scrutiny that the priest and
  > the barber made in the library of our ingenious hidalgo_
  
  > > Chapter VII: _About our worthy knight Don Quixote de la Mancha’s second
  > sally_
  