Publisher's Synopsis
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated into English by John Ormsby and with over 300 illustrations by Gustave Dore - both volumes complete. Don Quixote is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age, a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels. Ormsby's translation has seen more editions than any other nineteenth-century English version of the novel.