Book
1605
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Generally taken as the first modern novel: a book about a man ruined by reading, which knows it is a book.
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- John Ormsby's 1885 translation — scrupulous, heavily annotated, and deliberately unmodernised. Grossman's 2003 version is livelier and is not free.
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