Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a Spanish novel published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. Considered the first modern novel, it follows Alonso Quijano, a man who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote.

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Topics: Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction · Picaresque literature · Romances · Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction