This line, arguably the most famous in the history of Spanish literature, is the opening of The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, the first modern novel.

First published in 1605, Don Quixote ... a book born of Cervantes’ own misfortunes and tragedies. Knowing the influence ...

Today, people all over the world will honor the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who died 399 years ago on April 22, 1616. Since then, many readers have connected with the writer and his ...

What makes “Don Quixote” the first modern novel, I asked? In part, it’s that Cervantes “represents reality as contradictory and uncertain” via ambiguity, unreliable narrators and other ...

Two rare volumes of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel were auctioned ... calling Grossman the “most textually ignorant of the modern translators” of Don Quixote. According to another maven, Tom ...

The story of Don Quixote comes alive with a modern twist! In the fictional town of La Plancha, Texas, a brilliant professor battling dementia imagines himself as Cervantes’ titular hero.