Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Classic Literature Paperback Book

The modern novel begins with doubt, irony, and imagination.

Published in two parts in the early seventeenth century, Don Quixote occupies a singular place in literary history. Miguel de Cervantes presents a work acutely aware of itself as fiction, questioning inherited ideals of heroism, honour, and storytelling even as it draws deeply from them.

The narrative follows an ageing country gentleman who reshapes the world through the lens of chivalric romance. Yet the novel’s lasting power lies not in parody alone, but in its sustained attention to perception, language, and the fragile boundary between belief and reality. Comedy and melancholy coexist, and sympathy is never withdrawn, even as illusion repeatedly collapses.

Read now, Don Quixote remains expansive and demanding. Its scale allows Cervantes to explore narrative freedom, social observation, and moral ambiguity with unusual breadth. Much of what would later define the novel — self-awareness, irony, and psychological depth — finds an early and enduring expression here.

Format: Paperback
Condition: New
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Number of pages: 1032

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