کتاب Don Quixote Original Widely regarded as the worlds first modern novel Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knighterrant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza as they wend their way across sixteenthcentury Spain Milan Kundera calls Cervantes the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote  This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation as Salman Rushdie declares To my mind this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel a novel of immense daring much wildness and many colours It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant foolish glory This edition also contains new endnotes