<Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> PQ6323 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, pronounced (el iŋxeˈnjoso iˈðalɣo ðoŋ kiˈxote ðe la ˈmantʃa)), or just Don Quixote (/ ˌdɒn kiːˈhoʊti /, US: / - teɪ /; Spanish: (don kiˈxote) (listen)), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes . Published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon . As a founding work of modern Western literature and the earliest canonical novel, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites Don Quixote as the authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written". </P> <P> The story follows the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) named Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight - errant (caballero andante), reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha . He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood . Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story . </P> <P> Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality . The book had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word "quixotic" and the epithet "Lothario"; the latter refers to a character in "El curioso impertinente" ("The Impertinently Curious Man"), an intercalated story that appears in Part One, chapters 33--35 . The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse, and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre . </P>

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