Don Quixote

The canonical Spanish classic, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himselfIn the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful waysWhile Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants--Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacitySane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred yearsWith its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novelThis Penguin Classics edition includes John Rutherford's masterly translation, which does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes's prose.