Title: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Written: 1605, 1615
Translator: Edith Grossman
Pages: 940 Pages
Structure: Two “Parts”. Part 1 (1605): 87 Chapters. Part 2 (1615): 74 Chapters
I was shell-shocked after reading this book. How can something which, on the face of it, is a farcical comedy about the exploits of a mad man have such a huge impact? I sat there for ages afterwards trying to soak in this amazing story and realizing that in the folly of the protagonist I saw myself many times over.
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