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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote begins as a quest for glory, yet gradually becomes something far more human. It holds laughter at the mistakes of a man who reshapes the world according to his dreams, and a quiet sadness at how little room the world sometimes leaves for nobility. Beside him walks Sancho Panza, full of common sense, appetite, loyalty, and unexpected wisdom. Together, they remind us that imagination and reality do not simply oppose one another — sometimes the enduring story lives between them.
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- Author
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Language
- English
- Original language
- Spanish
- Edition type
- Public domain
- Publisher / imprint
- ARTales
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Reference
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
- Contributors
- Translator: John Ormsby
- Publication status
- Published
About the author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer and one of the great founders of the modern novel, transforming chivalric dreams, human folly, and the longing for dignity into a work of lasting world literature. In Don Quixote, he created the deluded knight of La Mancha and his loyal Sancho Panza, writing them with humour, tenderness, and a profound sympathy for a man who insists on seeing the world as nobler than it is. His work includes novels, novellas, plays, and poetry, though Don Quixote remains his most famous and influential legacy. Cervantes’s own life was nearly as adventurous as his fiction: he served as a soldier, was captured by pirates, and spent years in captivity in Algiers. Perhaps that is why his masterpiece understands so well that the ridiculous and the noble are not enemies — they often ride side by side.
About the collection
Rebels and Outsiders
Stories of people who stand apart from society, resist expectations, do not fit assigned roles, or cannot accept the world as it is arranged. This collection belongs to characters whose power grows from difference, solitude, defiance, or unrest.