Miguel de Cervantes (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Miguel de Cervantes is best known to readers in all languages as the author of El ingenioso
hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615; The History of the Valorous and Wittie
Knight- Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, 1612-1620; better known as Don Quixote de
la Mancha). That work was not only one of the first novels, but also the first truly modern
novel (and one of the many wonders attendant upon its publication is the fact that such a book
came so early in the life of the form); its influence appears in such disparate works as [The entire page is 6629 words long]
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