Don Quixote is a masterpiece of world fiction, a brilliant satire on
traditional romances and an uproarious comedy and a prose-epic in a new genre
for its time. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of
the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the
famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La
Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Don Quixote's mount is an old,
bedraggled horse named Rocinante on which he travels through sixteenth-century
Spain in search of adventure, dedicating his actions of valour to a simple
country girl whom he calls Dulcinea, seeing her as his lady. He takes on
spirits, evil enchanters and most famously, of course, giants in the form of
windmills.
Don Quixote is a masterpiece of world fiction, a brilliant satire on
traditional romances and an uproarious comedy and a prose-epic in a new genre
for its time. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of
the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the
famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La
Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Don Quixote's mount is an old,
bedraggled horse named Rocinante on which he travels through sixteenth-century
Spain in search of adventure, dedicating his actions of valour to a simple
country girl whom he calls Dulcinea, seeing her as his lady. He takes on
spirits, evil enchanters and most famously, of course, giants in the form of
windmills.
