Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley (Version 2)

Lord Dunsany's first novel, written during the First War, is a glittering fantasy born from Spain's Golden Age. Don Rodriguez inherits nothing but his father's sword and a hunger for glory, so he rides out into a world of adventure where romance and danger wait in equal measure. He has his Serafina, a lady worth any number of windmills, and he has the great forest of Shadow Valley, which holds more wonder and terror than any windmill ever could. Dunsany writes with the lush, dreaming prose that made him a master of mythic fantasy, yet here he channels it into something unexpected: a swashbuckling tale of honor, love, and the making of a legend. The shadows are real, the villains are cruel, and the road to fortune runs through both swordfights and enchantments. It is Don Quixote refracted through Dunsany's singular imagination, a book that knows the romance it is pursuing even as it twists that romance into something stranger and more luminous.