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DLSmithies recommends Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, "Don Quixote was Flaubert's favourite book, and I've read somewhere that the idea of Madame Bovary is to re-tell the story of Don Quixote in a different (see more) context. Don Quixote is obsessed with chivalric literature, and immerses himself in it to the extent that he loses his grip on reality. Emma Bovary is bewitched by Romantic literature in the same way. There are lots of parallels between the two novels, and I think putting them side by side can lead to a better understanding of both."

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Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Don Quixote

Original publication date

1605

1605 (Spanish: Part 1)

1612 (English: Shelton: Part 1)

1615 (Spanish: Part 2)

1620 (English: Shelton: Part 2)

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People/Characters

Alonso Quixano N/K/A Don Quixote de la Mancha

Aldonza "Dulcinea" Lorenzo del Toboso

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Epigraph

Dedication

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Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.

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