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DON QUIXOTE. By Miguel de Cervantes

Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

Ecco. 940 pp. $29.95

Whatever you may think of Don Quixote -- some readers find it dull and tedious, others the most magical of all books -- it is certainly the most influential, the most resonant novel ever written. Extended prose fictions existed before Cervantes -- the ancient Greek pastorals like "Daphnis and Chloe," the laconic and violent Icelandic sagas, Malory's Morte d'Arthur -- but all these tended to be what one might loosely call forms of romance or chronicle. That is, they emphasized adventures, ...

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