Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in Early Modern Spanish and published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern
J. M. Cohen
…Boris Pasternak, Selected Poems, London: Drummond, 1946. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Penguin, 1950. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions, Penguin, 1953…
Don Quixote de la Mancha (first edition, 1605, printed by Juan de la Cuesta)
Don Quixote goes mad from his reading of books of chivalry. Engraving by Gustave Doré.
Illustration by Gustave Doré depicting the famous windmill scene
Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré