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Don Quixote
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes
Renaissance
1605
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Don Quixote
Original title: Don Quijote de la Mancha (Español)
Miguel de Cervantes
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The story
A gentleman of La Mancha goes mad from reading chivalric romances and takes to the road as a knight-errant, inaugurating the modern novel.
About the author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), soldier, captive in Algiers and writer, is the author of the founding work of modern fiction in Spanish.