{"id":992,"date":"2009-03-28T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2009-03-28T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:33:34","slug":"don-quixote-illustration-by-gustave-dore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/28\/don-quixote-illustration-by-gustave-dore\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Quixote Illustration by Gustave Dor\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s an illustration from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, Don Quixote<\/a>.<\/em> It was done by Gustave Dor\u00e9. It shows Don Quixote reading a book of chivalry in his library.\u00a0 I love the way Dor\u00e9 shows all the madness of Quixote’s imagination surrounding him in his chair as if his imagination and the book were coming to life.\u00a0 It’s a reminder that the sanest guy in the entire novel is really the Don himself… even though he does go off tilting at windmills as if they were giant monsters.<\/p>\n

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Here’s an illustration from Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, Don Quixote. It was done by Gustave Dor\u00e9. It shows Don Quixote reading a book of chivalry in his library.\u00a0 I love the way Dor\u00e9 shows all the madness of Quixote’s imagination surrounding him in his chair as if his imagination and the book were coming to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,78],"tags":[2491,2492],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-literature","tag-illustration","tag-novels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t