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Don Quixote
- 519 pages · about 9 hours
- First published 1605
- 1,595 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615 and often called the first modern novel. Alonso Quijano, a minor gentleman of La Mancha, reads so many romances of chivalry that he decides to become a knight-errant himself, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. With his horse Rocinante, and a farm laborer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, he rides out to revive chivalry in a world he insists on seeing as a knightly tale. Sancho's earthy wit meets his master's lofty speeches at every turn. It is one of the most translated books in the world.
- Classics
- Adventure
- Rhetoric
- Quests (Expeditions)
- Biography
- Knights and knighthood
- Illustrations
- Chivalry
2 What to expect
A long comic novel about a man who reads too many tales of chivalry and sets out as a knight, with a practical farmhand as his squire. It is episodic, one adventure after another with other stories told along the way, and its humor runs from farce and wordplay to cruel practical jokes. Under the comedy it asks what is real and what is imagined, and it can be read as tragedy as easily as comedy.
Good for readers who want: a comic classic, episodic adventures, and an epic read to get lost in.
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Read it on the Internet Archive4 About Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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