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Synopsis

‘Didn’t I tell you they were only windmills? And only someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!’

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote’s fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.

John Rutherford’s landmark translation does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes’s prose. His introduction discusses the traditional works parodied in Don Quixote, as well as issues surrounding literary translation.

Voted greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute

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Customer Review: 03 January 2006

Reviewer: Patrick Mahon

I've just finished reading the John Rutherford translation of Cervantes' "Don Quixote", having promised myself I'd read it during the 400th anniversary of its publication in 1605. Just managed it, with minutes to spare! It is a great read - conversational, amusing, idiomatic, fast-paced, and yet at the same time including sufficient end-notes to keep a pedant like me perfectly happy! I know that this is a book I will return to again in future.

Critic Review:

‘John Rutherford … makes Don Quixote funny and readable … His Quixote can be pompous, imposingly learned, secretly fearful, mad and touching’ 
Colin Burrow,  Times Literary Supplement

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