Don Quixote (illustrated & annotated) (Annotated)

Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is the foundational comic epic of modern prose fiction: a richly layered account of an aging hidalgo who, enthralled by romances of chivalry, reinvents himself as a knight-errant and rides into a world stubbornly resistant to illusion. Alternating burlesque adventure, philosophical dialogue, satire, and pathos, the novel interrogates reading itself—how books shape...