Don Quixote

With its experimental form and literary playfulness, this classic is generally recognized as the first modern novel.

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants--Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together--and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.

This Penguin Classics edition, with its beautiful new cover design, includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá.

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 02/25/2003
Series: Penguin Classics
Pages: 1072
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.12w x 1.92d
ISBN: 9780142437230

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 13.2
Point Value: 91
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 12781 / Don Quixote (Unabridged)