Miguel de Cervantes

1547-1616

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a Spanish writer, the author of Don Quixote. His main book became one of the first examples of the modern European novel and one of the most widely read works in world literature. He also wrote pastoral and adventure prose, novellas, poetry and plays.

Galatea · 1585
Cervantes's first book, a pastoral romance in which shepherds and shepherdesses in an idealized countryside debate and sing of love, prose alternating with verse. Planned as the first part of a work he never continued.
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Don Quixote, Part 1 · 1605
The first part of the novel: an impoverished country gentleman, his head turned by too many books of chivalry, imagines himself a knight-errant and sets out with his squire Sancho Panza. One of the books at the root of the modern European novel.
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Don Quixote, Part 2

Miguel de Cervantes

Galatea · 1585

Don Quixote, Part 1 · 1605

Don Quixote, Part 2

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Miguel de Cervantes

Galatea · 1585

Don Quixote, Part 1 · 1605

Don Quixote, Part 2

The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda · 1617