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Don Quixote
Also known as Don Quixote de la Mancha, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha
Synopsis
A country gentleman reads too many romances of knights and decides the dusty roads of Spain still need one. With a skeptical farmer beside him, he treats inns as castles and windmills as giants, and the joke slowly turns into a portrait of why people insist on a nobler world than the one they are given.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1605–1615
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Spain
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Adventure, Satire, Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 16th–17th century
- Movement
- Early modern
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 940 pages
- Reported copies
- Often called the most-sold novel, near 500 million, a figure long disputed
- Kind
- Fiction