Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes · 1605
Classics · ranked #70 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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- Category
- Classics
- First published
- 1605 · 1600s
- Author
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Standing
- Essential Read
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