The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha

By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Subjects: Spanish fiction, Translations into English, Squires, Gentry, Don Quixote (Fictitious character), Manners and customs, Quests, Fiction, Spanish Adventure fiction, Social life and customs, History, Knights and knighthood

Description: Although published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today-perhaps from the extensive influence it has played on novelists, playwrights and even composers over the centuries, or perhaps from its eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past.