Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Summary

"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a Spanish novel published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. Considered the first modern novel, it follows Alonso Quijano, a man who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote. Accompanied by his earthy squire Sancho Panza, he embarks on misguided adventures, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles, determined to revive chivalry in a world that has moved on. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

• Knights and knighthood — Spain — Fiction
• Picaresque literature
• Romances
• Spain — Social life and customs — 16th century — Fiction

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• Best Books Ever Listings
• Classics of Literature
• Novels
• Harvard Classics

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