Don Quixote

Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixotepursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile ageand his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on the way. The first and still the greatest of all European novels, Don Quixote has been as important for the modern world as the poems of Homer were for the ancients. Translated by P. A. Motteux

Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than a dozen novels, including <b>The Years with Laura D?az</b>, <b>The Old Gringo</b>, and <b>The Death of Artemio Cruz</b>.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>