Don Quijote de la Mancha

Don Quixote: The best work of world literature in a free app

The Ingenious Gentleman, commonly known as Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote de la Mancha ), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

Follow the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a gentleman who reads so many books of chivalry that he decides to become a knight-errant under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical sentences about old-fashioned chivalry.

Don Quixote encounters the world as it is, initiating themes such as intertextuality, realism, metatheater, and literary representation.

Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of Spanish Golden Age literature and of the entire Spanish literary canon.

Don Quixote is a foundational work of modern Western literature, and one of the first canonical novels, regularly appearing at the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

It has had great influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexander Dumas in The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

In 2002, Don Quixote was named the "best literary work ever written."

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