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Guide to the classics: Don Quixote, the world's first novel - and one of the best

  • Written by Ana Puchau de Lecea, PhD Candidate and Teaching Associate, University of Melbourne
The "Don Quixote" windmills in Consuegra, Spain. They were made famous by the novel in the 16th century.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember…

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1615) is commonly attributed to Juan de Jáuregui, yet no portrait of Cervantes...

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