Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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"Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--Jacket.… (more)

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Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (hdcclassic)
hdcclassic: A modern-day retelling.
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Don Quixote de La Mancha, Part II by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (g026r)
g026r: The spurious continuation, published in 1614 while Cervantes was still working on his own Part II and which affected that work to a significant degree.
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Othemts)
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (DLSmithies)
DLSmithies: 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 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.… (more)
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Orlando Furioso, Part One by Ludovico Ariosto (Lirmac)
Lirmac: References to then-famous romances, such as this one by Ariosto, provide much of the humour in Don Quixote. In addition to enriching Cervantes' work, Orlando Furioso is entertaining in its own right (especially in this modern verse translation).
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Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (CGlanovsky)
CGlanovsky: Read the two concurrently and got a good sense of the kind of chivalric literature that gave birth to Quixote's madness.
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Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (CGlanovsky)
CGlanovsky: In several of his critical essays Borges makes insightful and unique mention of Don Quixote sometimes directly and sometimes in reference to other works.
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Simplicissimus by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (chwiggy)
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (TheLittlePhrase)
TheLittlePhrase: protagonists who struggle to differentiate between reality & the books that they read
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (CGlanovsky)
CGlanovsky: Misguided protagonist gets into a series of misadventures

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Book talk: Don Quixote	10 unread / 10	remember_the_alimony, October 2020
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The 12 in 12 Category Challenge: GROUP READ: Don Quixote - General Discussion thread	35 unread / 35	Muscogulus, January 2013
The 12 in 12 Category Challenge: GROUP READ: Don Quixote - Part 1, Book 3	11 unread / 11	japaul22, August 2012
The 12 in 12 Category Challenge: GROUP READ: Don Quixote - Part 1, Book 4	17 unread / 17	banjo123, July 2012
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The 12 in 12 Category Challenge: GROUP READ: Don Quixote - Part 1, Book 1	32 unread / 32	japaul22, June 2012
75 Books Challenge for 2009: Group Read - Don Quixote	143 unread / 143	mtlee, September 2009

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The first time I read this major work of world literature was in Edith Grossman's sterling translation when I was turning 30 on vacation in Vegas.

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"Voted the Greatest Book of All Time by the Nobel Institute."

From a Yale Open Course with Dr. Echevarría (http://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese/span-300/lecture-1):
Gabriel García Márquez said it has already everything that novelists would attempt to do in the future.
Freud formed a Cervantes club.
Ian Watt called it one of four myths of modern individualism (along with Faust, Don Juan, and Robinson Crusoe).
Borges's obsession was the Quixote.

From [b:No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes|13689|No Ordinary Man The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes|Donald P. McCrory|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328864017l/13689._SY75_.jpg|15820]:

"Amid all its assets, Don Quixote is a compendium of proverbs" (99).

"Love, fate, and providence...are realities Cervantes believed...appealed to every human heart (108).

"Cervantes wanted to offer the public something altogether new..." (184).

"[Don Quixote's] success was immediate and Cervantes became a household name..." (193).

"[Cervantes claimed] that he was 'the first to write novels in the Castilian language'" (230).

From [b:Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook|120269|Cervantes' Don Quixote A Casebook|Roberto González Echevarría|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1355925539l/120269._SY75_.jpg|115805]:

"Cervantes' protagonist has had such lasting appeal because he embodies a modern yearning to shape one's life according to one's desires" (4). (

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chrisvia | Apr 29, 2021 |

In my humble opinion, this is one of the greatest works of all time, but I will provide a different kind of review here. I was lucky enough to read this while traveling in Spain for a few months. I attended a Department of Medicine lecture at the University in Salamanca on the medicinal herbs collected by Don Quixote. If ever you can read a relevant work while traveling in the country of origin, I highly recommend it. I bought the book at a bookstore in Fuengirola where they were giving a reading in English. We toured the Don Quixote trail (there are sign posts of places mentioned in the book). It's a fun way to have a greater cultural and historical appreciation. (

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jdaneway | Apr 18, 2021 |

pszolovits | Feb 3, 2021 |

This long book was a surprisingly quick and easy read, charming, funny, sometimes a little hateful. It's billed sometimes as the greatest novel of all time, and I'm not sure I agree with that claim. As a first-of-its-kind book, it's certainly an achievement worth noting, but on its own, I think it's more diverting than profound. A landmark book, sure. But capital-G great beyond its innovative achievement? I think probably not. Still, I enjoyed it and am glad to have this classic under my belt at last. (

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Adler, Mortimer J.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Alcina, Juan	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Allaigre, Claude	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Allen, John Jay	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Almeida, Andréa Vilela de	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ambrus, Victor G.	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Arcuri, Paulo	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ardizzone, Edward	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Arroyo, Florencio Sevilla	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Astrana Marín, Luis	Estudi crític	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Auerbach, Erich	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ayala, Francisco	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Baldwin, James	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bardon, Maurice	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Basanta, Angel	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Battestin, Martin C.	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Benyhe, János	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bergquist, Ingrid	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Blake, Quentin	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Blecua, José Manuel	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bleznick, Donald William	—	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Block, Harry	Book Designer.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bloom, Harold	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bogin, Magda	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Boix, Manuel	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Boyd, Stephen	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Braunfels, Ludwig	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Brickell, Herschel	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Brodt, Marcio	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Buchan, William	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bulbena i Tosell, Antoni	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Burt, Mary E.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Canavaggio, Jean	Preface	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Canavaggio, Jean	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Cano, Juan	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Carlesi, Ferdinando	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Carreras, Jorge	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Casalduero, Joaquín	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Case, David	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Cassou, Jean	Editor and Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Castro, Americo	Preface	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Chapman, Robin	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Chappell, Warren	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Clemencín, Diego	Comentarios	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Close, A. J.	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Cohen, J. M.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Coomonte, Pilar	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Cozzi, Paola	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Crane, Walter	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Crocker, Lester G.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Czerny, Anna Ludwika	Tł.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Czerny, Zygmunt	Tł.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Dalí, Salvador	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Dam, C.F.A. van	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Daumier, Honoré	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Davis, Gerald J.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Davis, Jack	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
de Riquer, Martín	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Di Dio, Giorgio	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Doré, Gustave	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Douglas, Kenneth	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Doyle, Henry Grattan	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Duffield, A. J.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Edman, Irwin	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Eko	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Eliot, Charles W.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Estrada, Manuel	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Fadiman, Clifton	Associate Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Falzone, Letizia	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Fens, Kees	Afterword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Forradellas, Joaquin	Notes	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Franciosini, Lorenzo	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Frenk, Margit	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Friedman, Edward H.	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Frunzetti, Ion	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Fuentes, Carlos	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Galvão, Cristiana	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gamba, Bartolomeo	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gómez de la Serna, Ramón	Epilogue	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Giannini, Alfredo	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gil, Daniel	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ginebreda, Alicia	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Givanel i Mas, Joan	Foreword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Goetz, Philip W.	Associate Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
González Echevarría, Roberto	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Grønvold, Magnus	Overs.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Grandville	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Grossman, Edith	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Guidall, George	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Guillén, Claudio	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gunnarsson, Jakob	Revisor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Haamstede, N. van	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hakmen, Roza	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Harrison, Michael	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Heine, Heinrich	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Heller, Johnny	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Herrero Miguel, A.	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Him, George	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hollo, J. A.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hopkins, L.	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hutchins, Robert Maynard	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Jarvis, Charles	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Johannot, Tony	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Jones, Joseph Ramon	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Jones, Olive	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kraaz, Gerhart	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Lange, Susanne	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Lathrop, Thomas A.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Legrand, Edy	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Martini, Fritz	Afterword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Moner, Michel	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Motteux, Peter Anthony	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Nordenhök, Jens	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ormsby, John	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Oudin, César	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ozell, John	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Palao, L.	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pascual, José Antonio	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pol, Barber van de	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Puccini, Dario	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Putnam, Samuel	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Raffel, Burton	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rico, Francisco	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Riley, E. C.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rojo, Guillermo	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rosset, François de	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rutherford, John	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Schüller tot Peursum, C.L.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Shore, T. Teignmouth	Contributor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Slade, Carole	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Smollett, Tobias	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Spemann, Adolf	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Stade, George	Consulting Editorial Director	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Starkie, Walter	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Tieck, Ludwig	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Valastro Canale, Angelo	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Valcárcel, Carolina	Designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Vargas Llosa, Mario	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Vázquez, Carlos	Photographer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Werumeus Buning, J.W.F.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Wilson, Diana de Armas	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

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The Portable Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote, Exemplary Novels, and Farewell to Life by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote [Norton Critical Edition] by Miguel de Cervantes

Cervantès. Oeuvres romanesques complètes. Tome 1/2 : Don Quichotte de la Manche précédé de La Galatée (La Pléiade) by Cervantès

Cervantès : uvres romanesques complètes, coffret 2 volumes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Great Books: Sixth Year Course, Readings for Discussion (The Great Books Foundation, Volumes 1-8, Boxed Set) by The Great Books Foundation

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Don Quichotte von La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes

Contains

Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote [Part 2 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote [Part 1 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (indirect)

Don Quixote [Part 2 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes (indirect)

Don Quixote [Part 3 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes (indirect)

Don Quixote [Part 4 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes (indirect)

Is retold in

Don Quixote (Wishbone Classics #1) by Michael Burgan

Don Quixote and the Windmills by Eric A. Kimmel

Don Quixote of the Mancha (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote (Usborne Young Reading) by Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Is an adaptation of

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Has the adaptation

Is abridged in

Don Quixote [Abridged] by Miguel de Cervantes

Selections from Don Quixote [abridged - Applebaum] by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote (Classic Fiction) by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote - abridged and Edited by Lester Cervantes ; Crocker

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Piirakkasota : Valikoima huumoria by Veikko Huovinen

Is a parody of

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell

Amadis of Gaul by Anónimo

Was inspired by

The Golden Ass by Apuleius

Inspired

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

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Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

Man of La Mancha: A Musical Play by Dale Wasserman

Rock Star's Rainbow by Kevin Glavin

Has as a reference guide/companion

Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Reference Guide by Howard Mancing

Has as a study

Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov

Cervantes's Don Quixote by Harold Bloom

Don Quixote: Hero or Fool? by John Jay Allen

Has as a student's study guide

CliffsNotes on Cervantes' Don Quixote by Marianne Sturman

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (Sparknotes) by Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel De Cervantes' Don Quixote (Barron's Book Notes) by Joyce Milton

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Canonical title

Don Quixote

Original title

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha

Alternative titles

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

Original publication date

1605 (Spanish: Part 1)

1612 (English: Shelton: Part 1)

1615 (Spanish: Part 2)

1620 (English: Shelton: Part 2)

1885 (English: Ormsby)

People/Characters

Important places

La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Montiel, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Barbary Coast

El Toboso, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

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Important events

Related movies

Man of La Mancha (1972 ∙ IMDb)

Don Quixote (2000 ∙ IMDb)

Donkey Xote (2007 ∙ IMDb)

Awards and honors

50 Great Hispanic Novels Every Student Should Read (1)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (1)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)

Guardian 1000 (Comedy)

A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan (Literary Classics)

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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.

Prologue: Idle reader: I don't have to swear any oaths to persuade you that I should like this book, since it is the son of my brain, to be the most beautiful and elegant and intelligent book imaginable.

Chapter 1: In a village in La Mancha, the name of which I cannot quite recall, there lived not long ago one of those country gentlemen or hidalgos who keep a lance in a rack, an ancient leather shield, a scrawny hack and a greyhound for coursing.

Quotations

And as I have heard say, true love cannot be divided, and must be voluntary and unforced: -- this being so, as I believe it is, why would you have me subject my will by force, being not otherwise obliged thereto, than only because you say you love me? For, pray tell me, if as heaven has made me handsome, it had made me ugly, would it have been just that I should have complained of you because you did not love me? (Part 1, Chapter 14. Marcela is speaking)

Heaven has not yet ordained that I should love by destiny; and from loving by choice, I desire to be excused. (Part 1, Chapter 14. Marcela is speaking)

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Disambiguation notice

Don Quixote was originally published in two parts. This is the complete and unabridged version, containing both parts. Please do not combine with abridged or incomplete versions.

Publisher's editors

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Fuentes, Carlos (Modern Library)

Kundera, Milan

Nabakov, Vladimir

Mann, Thomas (Modern Library)

Bloom, Harold

Original language

Spanish

Canonical DDC/MDS

863.3

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"Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--Jacket.

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