On January 16, 1605, Miguel de Cervantes' El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de l hed. The book is considered by many to be the first modern novel and one of the
The protagonist is a minor noble, Alonso Quixano, whose obsessive reading of ch ame Don Quixote and, along with his squire Sancho Panza, roams around La Mancha of challenges that exist entirely in his mind. Quixote attacks a group of monks dmills he believes to be giants. The episodic story is intentionally comedic, a
to its satirization of older stories of knights and their deeds.
Although Cervantes made only a modest profit off of its publication rights, the l within the year. Over the next decade, it was translated and re-published acr olonies. Over the subsequent centuries, critics have continued to praise, analy focus on the theme of imagination and the more subversive elements of the text, chivalry, patriotism and even the concept of objective reality. The novel gave
and other languages, including the English phrase "tilting at windmills" and t handy, another novel frequently called one of the greatest of all time, was hea n's enormously influential The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which explicitly nd groundbreaking, Don Quixote has endured in a way that only a select few nove
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