Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.