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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Classics · ranked #71 in category

An elderly Spanish gentleman, his mind disordered by too many chivalric romances, sets out as a knight errant with his pragmatic squire Sancho Panza to do good and restore justice to the world. Cervantes's novel — often called the first modern novel — plays the idealist and the pragmatist against each other in ways that have sustained 400 years of interpretation.

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The verdict

Category
Classics
First published
1605 · 1600s
Author
Miguel de Cervantes
Standing
Essential Read

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