Don Quixote – Wordsworth Classics Edition

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote follows the comic and tragic misadventures of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who loses himself in tales of chivalry and sets off across Spain as a self-proclaimed knight-errant, with his bewildered peasant squire Sancho Panza in tow. Tilting at windmills, battling imaginary giants, and declaring undying love for a peasant girl he calls Dulcinea, Don Quixote is at once a parody of romance literature and a profound meditation on idealism, delusion, and what it means to be human. This edition features the celebrated 1755 translation by Tobias Smollett — a comic novelist rendering a comic novelist — with an introduction by David Whitlock. Vintage Old Books, Mom’s personal collection