Don Quixote

"Don Quixote" is one of the most popular books of world literature. This is the novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616) about the adventures of the hero of the same name. The novel was conceived as a parody of chivalric novels. The stimulus to the creation of the book was the novel "Interludes of Romances", ridiculing the farmer, who went crazy after reading a lot of romances. The poor farmer threw his wife and began to wander in white light — which, in turn, made the hero of the novel Cervantes (except that Don Quixote was not married). The novel consists of two parts: the first "The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha", published in 1605; and the second "Second part of the Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha," published in 1615. The most accurate translation by John Ormsby (1885).