Don Quijote
- Approximate level
- C1
- Length
- 378,798 words
- Reading time
- 31 h 34 min
- Chapters
- 137
- Language
- Spanish
- On Project Gutenberg since
- 1999
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This text contains the official legal documents and royal licenses required for the publication of the novel in 1604. As a learner of Spanish, you will find this material challenging because it uses archaic legal terminology and formal bureaucratic structures from the seventeenth century. The sentences are long, complex, and rely on administrative phrasing that differs significantly from modern conversational Spanish. It serves as a historical introduction to the context in which this classic work of literature was first produced and distributed.
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Subjects
- Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction
- Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction
- Picaresque literature
- Romances
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