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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)
  1. 114
    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)
  2. 71
    Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (hdcclassic)
    hdcclassic: A modern-day retelling.
  3. 50
    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.
  4. 72
    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.
  5. 50
    The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (keremix)
  6. 83
    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Othemts)
  7. 40
    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).
  8. 41
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (ateolf)
  9. 20
    Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (longway)
  10. 20
    Simplicissimus by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (chwiggy)
  11. 20
    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.
  12. 20
    The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (Rubbah)
  13. 10
    Don Quixote: An Introductory Essay in Psychology by Salvador de Madariaga (Anonymous user)
  14. 65
    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (caflores)
  15. 10
    Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (TheLittlePhrase)
    TheLittlePhrase: protagonists who struggle to differentiate between reality & the books that they read
  16. 11
    Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote by Thomas Mann (chwiggy)
  17. 11
    Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (roby72)
  18. 11
    Handling Sin by Michael Malone (allenmichie)
  19. 02
    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (CGlanovsky)
    CGlanovsky: Misguided protagonist gets into a series of misadventures
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 Easton Press Collectors: Don Quixote Limited Edition with Dore Art59 unread / 59jsg1976, Yesterday 7:06pm
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Wow! What a book! Such a fun read, following in the steps of the greatest knight ever, Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza. The book will have you laughing out loud, sad, angry, confused and every other emotion you can think of. Definitely a book to remember, with so many writing techniques used, but not over the top or boring. Don Quixote is the most intelligent madman ever to be written about. Some highlights for me were the advice that Don gives to Sancho when he leaves for his "leadership" position. Advice that survives through the ages. Kudos also goes out to the translator of the book from Spanish, Edith Grossman, a monumental task indeed, but creates a thrilling story that would probably make Cervantes proud. Although, this is the type of book that makes me want to learn spanish, just so I can read it in the original format that Cervantes wrote it. I also loved Sancho's constant usage of proverbs, and how much it pissed off Don Quixote. The relationship between the two is worth the read on it's own. Definitely a keeper! It's long, but oh so worth it. ( )
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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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