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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Publisher: SC Active Business Development SRL

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Summary

This is the story that a Nobel Prize Committee survey of one hundred of the world's best writers named "the greatest book of all time."
The most influential work of the entire Spanish literary canon and a founding work of modern Western literature, Don Quixote is also one of the greatest works ever written. 
Hugely entertaining but also moving at times, this episodic novel is built on the fantasy life of one Alonso Quixano, who lives with his niece and housekeeper in La Mancha. Quixano, obsessed by tales of knight errantry, renames himself "Don Quixote" and, with his faithful servant Sancho Panza, goes on a series of quests. Many of these adventures, including tilting at windmills, are established in European literary consciousness.
Available since: 04/25/2017.

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