Don Quixote : Mint Editions : 9781513264943 : 151326494X : 31 Dec 2020 : ?Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality?The parody has become a paragon.?-Vladimir Nabokov ?A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with?The final and greatest utterance of the human mind.?- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is regarded not only as the first modern novel, but also as one of the most important works of fiction ever produced. The subtle and hopeful irony, resplendent variety of characters and its thoroughly entertaining sense of adventure and friendship has dazzled readers for more than four hundred years. It was published in Spain in two volumes, first in 1605 then followed by the second in 1615. Cervantes' use of realism and everyday language in Don Quixote was revolutionary at the time, and its influence on the development of literature ma