Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1) Don Quixote
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"Widely acknowledged as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote features two of the most famous characters ever created: Don Quixote de la Mancha, the tall, bewildered, and half-crazy knight, and Sancho Panza, his rotund and incorrigibly loyal squire. The unforgettable comic dynamic between these two legendary figures has served as the blue-print for countless novels written since Cervantes's time. An immediate success when first...
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En un lugar de La Mancha vivía un hidalgo llamado Alonso Quijano, quien leía muchos libros de caballería, y por tanto leer perdió el juicio. En medio de su locura se hizo llamar don Quijote de la Mancha, a su caballo lo nombró Rocinante, a una campesina que cortejaba la llamó Dulcinea del Toboso y se hizo acompañar de su escudero, Sancho Panza. Don Quijote y Sancho vivieron un sinfín de aventuras. ¡Conoce las historias de este ingenioso hidalgo!,...
3) Don Quixote
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Published in two volumes, but complete here, a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written."