Don Quijote de la Mancha

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Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes

Cervantes' comic and moving adventure about books, reality, and longing.

Author
Miguel de Cervantes
Year
1605
Original language
spa

About this book

Don Quijote follows a reader so transformed by chivalric romances that he sets out to live inside them. With Sancho Panza beside him, comedy becomes a way to ask serious questions about illusion, dignity, friendship, violence, and the stories people need. The novel is playful and self-aware, but also tender: it understands both the danger and the nobility of impossible ideals.

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