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Excerpt from The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 1 of 2
Pt is certain, that, upon the fiirtlf appearance of? This; book in publick, great' numbers of the Spainjh readers under-flood it as a true hitiory; nor perhaps its-the Opinion quite extinguithed in that country: ton an intimate friend of mine. Told me, that, meeting, not long ago, in London, with a Spaniard of tome figure, and wanting to learnof him tbme particulars concerning, Cervantes and donjqi'iixote, the Spaniard very gravely atl'ured him, that Cervantes was a, wag; the whole book fietion and meer invention; and that there never. Was. Tuch a perfon as Don s'zaixote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
