Title: The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Translations into English, Spanish Adventure fiction, Don Quixote (Fictitious character), Squires, Spanish fiction, Quests, History, Gentry, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Knights and knighthood
Places: Spain
Time periods: 16th century, 17 century