Books Like Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 137 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Don Quixote.
Study Guide

Books Like Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 137 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Don Quixote.
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Cervantes's first book, La Galatea (1684), is one of the few books in Don Quixote's library to escape the fire. The work is a pastoral novel.

Cervantes's Exemplary Novels is comprised of stories that depict examples of exemplary behavior. Some tales, like "Lady Cornelia," are traditional cloak-and-dagger romances. Others are Kafkaesque; "Doctor Glass Case" chronicles the story of a servant boy who gets to attend school. He goes mad when he falls in love, and in his madness he believes he is made of glass.

Cervantes's final novel was completed three days before his death. Published posthumously, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda is a scathing denunciation of reason and science in favor of the idylls of the golden age of Spain. The story itself is a quest, as several characters leave an imperfect society and eventually arrive at superior wisdom...

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