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Don Quixote Part 1: Chapter Summaries

This page brings together all 52 chapters of Don Quixote Part 1. Choose the number that matches your reading or follow the index from the beginning. Keeping the part and chapter number together helps you locate a passage when you return to the novel.

Don Quixote Part 1 begins with the hidalgo reading books of chivalry.
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To avoid learning what happens ahead of time, open the summary after reading the chapter. Use it to put events in order and decide which questions you want to check against the text.

Don Quixote Part 1: Chapter index

Part 1: Chapters 1–10

Part 1: Chapters 11–20

Part 1: Chapters 21–30

Part 1: Chapters 31–40

Part 1: Chapters 41–50

Part 1: Chapters 51–52

The links include each episode’s title so you can find a scene even when you do not remember its number. The chapter pages distinguish what happens in the story, a comment on a specific passage and a question for today. If you arrive at the wrong scene, check the part and number before going forward. The previous and next links follow the novel’s order; you can return here whenever you want to choose a different chapter.

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Part 2: 74 chapters · All chapters

This index in Spanish · Back to home

You can check the original Spanish text in Don Quixote at the Centro Virtual Cervantes. Use the part and chapter number to locate each episode.