01994cam a2200349 4500 606409164 TxAuBib 20200604120000.0 881116s1983||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780140440102 0140440100 (OCoLC)495914640 ICrlF ICrlF TxAuBib Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The adventures of Don Quixote / by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translat- ed by J.M. Cohen. New York : Penguin, 1983. 940 p. ; 19 cm. Penguin Classics Classic Spanish Literaure. Tells the story of the adventures of Don Quixote, the visionary idealist and Sancho Panza, the practical realist. Fiction Catalog (Wilson.) Junior High School Library Catalog (Wilson.) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. ith its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible.". Young Adult. Adult. 20110915. Knights and knighthood Fiction. Spain Fiction. Cohen, John M. Penguin Classics. TXNAV