Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605–1615) is often called the first modern novel and is unquestionably one of the funniest — a work of inexhaustible comic depth in which the gap between the knight’s grand self-image and the deflating reality of windmills, innkeepers, and sheep generates both irresistible laughter and genuine pathos. This selection gathers the best of its wit and wisdom in a single accessible volume.
Ideal for the reader who wants to encounter Cervantes’s genius directly, or revisit favourite passages from one of the great books of world literature. Download this free EPUB and spend time with the melancholy Knight of the Sorrowful Face.