Don Quixote

"Don Quixote" is one of the most popular books of world literature. This is the novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) about the adventures of the hero of the same name. The novel was conceived as a parody of chivalric novels. The stimulus to the creation of the book was the novel "Interludes of Romances", ridiculing the farmer, who went crazy after reading a lot of romances. The poor farmer threw his wife and began to wander in white light - which, in turn, made the hero of the novel Cervantes (except that Don Quixote was not married).

The novel consists of two parts: the first " The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha", published in 1605; and the second "Second part of the Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha," published in 1615.

The most accurate translation by John Ormsby (1885).