Don Quixote

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is the first modern novel and one of the greatest works of imagination in any language — the story of a man who has read so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and sets out, with his devoted squire Sancho Panza, to become a knight errant and right the wrongs of the world. Published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is simultaneously a parody of a literary genre, a profound meditation on the nature of fiction and reality, a comic masterpiece, and a surprisingly tender portrait of human idealism. To read Don Quixote is to encounter a work that has never stopped being contemporary — that speaks directly to questions about the stories we tell ourselves and the worlds we create through belief. Published by Vintage, this edition makes one of literature’s great adventures fully accessible.