Most Popular Books by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The story follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote''s rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation.

Man of glass: A young scholar goes mad, believing himself to be made entirely of glass, and becomes famous for his satirical comments on the society around him.

Tells the adventures of an eccentric hidalgo who adopted the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha, when his brain had become so addled from reading too many romances on knighthood. Don Quixote has known most of the misfortunes that can befall a man and has yet remained of good humor and stout heart.

El clsico de la literatura espaola presentado en versin facsimilar de la edicin de Ignacio Cumplido de 1842. Incluye una nota bibliogrfica de Ignacio Cumplido y el prefacio de Luis Arroyo Zapatero rector de la Universidad Castilla-La Mancha al momento de la publicacin. La edicin contiene la reproduccin de las lminas en blanco y negro del siglo XIX. / This Spanish literature classic is presented in a facsimile version of the 1842 edition by Ignacio Cumplido. It includes a bibliographical note by Cumplido and a foreword by Luis Arroyo Zapatero dean of the University Castilla-La Mancha. This edition also contains the reproduction of the black and white gravures of the XIX century.