Don Quixote - New Curriculum Recommended Reading - Green Apple Teenager's Essential Classic

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The work depicts a knight named Don Quixote, who is full of whimsical ideas and embarks on journeys with his fantasies, creating many absurd jokes. The author's initial motivation was to imitate knightly literature and satirize the prevailing absurd knightly novels of the time through the character of Don Quixote. However, the social reality depicted in the work, the progressive humanistic ideas it embodies, and the complex personality of Don Quixote all brought unexpected artistic effects and worldwide influence to the work, making Don Quixote and Sancho household names in Western classical literature. Don Quixote's actions may seem mad and ridiculous, but his noble moral integrity, his perseverance and uprightness, and his unwavering pursuit of his ideals are commendable. To help children thoroughly understand the complex character of Don Quixote, we have appropriately adapted the original text and interspersed it with beautiful illustrations. We believe that after reading this, children will undoubtedly benefit greatly.