Don Quixote

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Cervantes published the first volume of this novel about a delusional hero in 1605 Don Quixote $200 J QUICK LIT 2022-10-26 #8728
Part I of a 17th century novel is titled "The Ingenious Hidalgo" this character "of La Mancha" Don Quixote $800 DJ LITERARY CHARACTERS 2022-09-14 #8698
Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote FJ LITERARY CHARACTERS 2022-03-04 #8590
It begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember" Don Quixote $200 J LITERATURE 2021-08-09 #8461
Fictional folks turn up in Tennessee Williams' play "Camino Real"--this Spanish windmill tilter, for one Don Quixote $200 J LITERARY CHARACTERS 2016-12-05 #7416
This man, "seeing that Sancho was mocking him, became so... angry that he raised his lance and struck him twice" Don Quixote $600 J THAT LITERARY TITLE GUY IS UP TO SOMETHING 2014-01-15 #6753
He gave his horse a name that partly means "nag" in Spanish; the name he gave himself refers to a piece of armor Don Quixote FJ LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS 2011-10-05 #6218
The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work Don Quixote FJ LITERATURE & MUSIC 2010-06-25 #5950
The full title of this Spanish novel includes "de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo" Don Quixote $400 DJ LITERATURE 2008-06-18 #5488
Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit Don Quixote $400 DJ LITERATURE 2007-12-19 #5358
In this Cervantes novel, Alonso's plans never work out as he tries to be chivalrous Don Quixote $200 J A LITTLE LIT 2007-02-15 #5169
Spanish thinker Ortega y Gasset said that heroism is within all of us in "Meditations on" this literary character Don Quixote $400 DJ HEROES OF LITERATURE 2006-06-22 #5029
This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Don Quixote $800 DJ LITERARY QUOTATIONS 2005-11-25 #4880
This character's squire was Sancho Panza Don Quixote $1,000 J CLASSIC LITERATURE 2003-09-26 #4380
Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel Don Quixote $400 DJ LITERATURE 1998-03-04 #3118
This "knight" devotes himself to Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he calls Dulcinea Del Toboso Don Quixote $200 DJ LITERARY CHARACTERS 1997-07-01 #2972
Some say Cervantes wrote a portion of this 1605 novel in jail Don Quixote $100 J LITERATURE 1997-01-30 #2864
A broken-down old nag is called a Rosinante in honor of this Spanish character's scrawny horse Don Quixote $600 DJ LITERARY ALLUSIONS 1997-01-13 #2851
This Spaniard rides a bony old nag named Rocinante on his quests Don Quixote $200 DJ LITERATURE 1995-11-14 #2577
The hero of this Cervantes novel becomes obsessed with chivalry & decides to be a knight errant Don Quixote $400 DJ LITERATURE 1994-11-11 #2345
Idealistic, compulsive impracticality is called quixotism in honor of this title character Don Quixote $100 J LITERARY ALLUSIONS 1994-05-12 #2244
Cervantes' Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry Don Quixote $400 DJ LITERATURE 1993-11-26 #2125
This Cervantes title character lives between Aragon & Castile Don Quixote $200 DJ LITERARY CHARACTERS 1993-06-14 #2036
This character mistook windmills for giants, hence the phrase "to tilt at windmills" Don Quixote $100 J LITERARY ALLUSIONS 1991-06-10 #1576
A sweetheart is sometimes called a "Dulcinea" after a character in this novel Don Quixote $100 J LITERARY ALLUSIONS 1991-01-24 #1479
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