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Don Quixote

Don Quixote

by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616

BookID: 996

Language:English

Translator:Ormsby, John, 1829-1895

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 50.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- FictionKnights and knighthood -- Spain -- FictionPicaresque literatureRomances

Description

"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. Accompanied by his earthy squire Sancho Panza, he embarks on misguided adventures, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles, determined to revive chivalry in a world that has moved on. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

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