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Article: Excerpts from Monarch notes guide to Don Quixote.
- Article from:
- Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Cervantes' Don Quixote. New York: Monarch, 1975, long out of print and hard to find.
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