Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator." Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera....

"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...

Having an immediate success when first published 400 years ago, and with its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been recognized as the world's first modern novel. Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless, destroy the wicked, and win the heart of his beloved Dulcinea. Seated upon...

The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.

An idealistic country gentleman and his squire, Sancho Panza, set out like the knights of old to search for adventure and to set wrongs right.

A new translation of the Spanish classic about a bumbling knight, Don Quijote, and his shrewd squire, Sancho Panza. By the translator of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Abridged adventure stories for children. "Esta colección comprende cinco verdaderos clásicos repletos de acción, valentía y venganza. Los emocionantes relatos recogidos en este volumen son El conde de Monte Cristo, El prisionero de Zenda, Don Quixote, Los tres mosqueteros y Los 39 escalones." -- Back cover