FIRST PART OF THE DELIGHTFUL HISTORY OF THE MOST INGENIOUS KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Category: Adventure fiction, Spanish

Although published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today-perhaps from the extensive influence it has played on novelists, playwrights and even composers over the centuries, or perhaps from its eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past.