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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) , the son of a poor Spanish surgeon, achieved enormous success with the publication of the first part of Don Quixote in 1605.

John Rutherford is a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, where he teaches Spanish and Spanish-American language and literature.

Roberto González Echevarríais Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale.

Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.

Translated with Notes by John Rutherford Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind.