Don Quixote is a middle aged Spanish Gentleman who believes that Knights are real and monsters do exist. Set in sixteenth century Spain, he escapes one night from his village accompanied by his faithful squire Sancho Panza, and what follows is one of the mightiest adventure stories ever written, sometimes a bit rib-tickling or tear-dripping though!

The Incredible story of a Knight and his squire

An acclaimed English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the picaresque adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way through Spain, in an edition featuring an introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Reprint.

An acclaimed English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the picaresque adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way through Spain, in an edition featuring an introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Reprint.

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Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes “the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling “observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, “To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory”. This edition also contains new endnotes. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote

An acclaimed English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the picaresque adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way through Spain, in an edition featuring an introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Reprint.

Don Quixote

The Incredible story of a Knight and his squire

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