num_pages: 1023
description: 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.With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. This Penguin Classics edition includes John Rutherford's masterly new translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose, as well as a brilliant new critical introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarriá.
language: English
title: Don Quixote
titlecomplete: Don Quixote
characters: Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Spanish Literature, Classic Literature, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Spain
ratings_count: 261219
places: La Mancha, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Adaptation from Another Medium & Best Humor Publication, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Ισπανόφωνη Λογοτεχνία, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premio Valle-Inclán
category: John Rutherford
publisher: Penguin Classics