Category Archives: Cervantes

Cervantes Leaves His Pretty Wife and Looks for a Job

Posted on July 24, 2015 by 100swallows

A few days after his wedding Cervantes must already have suspected that he had made a mistake. His wife was cheerful and  pretty and passably wealthy but he couldn’t stand her little town. How was he going to spend the … Continue reading →

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Don Quijote’s Evil Giants

Posted on September 8, 2014 by 100swallows

When you first see the windmills on the great hill of Consuegra you will remember Don Quijote. He thought they weren’t windmills but evil giants standing haughtily in front of him; and he bravely tilted his lance and charged. They … Continue reading →

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Cervantes’ House Restored

Posted on January 30, 2011 by 100swallows

Miguel de Cervantes is considered the greatest Spanish author—the Shakespeare of Spanish letters. People who go to England make the excursion, the pilgrimage, to Stratford-on-Avon, to see Shakespeare’s house. Who goes to see Cervantes’? Few. Where is it? Not far … Continue reading →

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