Don Quixote

By John Rutherford (Translator)

Part of the Penguin Classics series

A delusional knight and his clever squire embark on absurd adventures.

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1072 pages· 400,595 words· Est. 37 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Don Quixote, lost in tales of chivalry, becomes a self-proclaimed knight, dragging his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, into a world of imagined giants and noble quests. As Quixote's fantasies blur with reality, Sancho's wit grows sharper. Together, they navigate a landscape of absurdity and wisdom, challenging perceptions of sanity and folly. Will their journey reveal truth or merely more illusions? Dive into a tale where madness meets insight, and the line between heroism and delusion is as thin as a lance.

From the publisher

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read 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, 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.

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