This quarter leather bound book from The Franklin Mint is in EXCELLENT condition with no markings inside or out and no attached bookplates. The only real imperfection is that the ribbon bookmark is beginning to fray at the end.

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Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, its full title is The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha, and is a founding work of Western literature. It is often labelled as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works ever written. Don Quixote is also one of the most-translated books in the world and the best-selling novel of all time. When first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution, it was better known for its presumed central ethic that in some ways individuals can be intelligent while their society is quite fanciful and was seen as a fascinating, enchanting or disenchanting book in this dynamic and a didactic matter. In the 19th century, it was seen as social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side Cervantes was on". Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's idealism and nobility are viewed by the post-chivalric world as not enough and are defeated and rendered useless by a common reality devoid of his "true" romantic inclinations designed for the taste of royalty; by the 20th century, the novel had come to occupy a canonical space as one of the foundations of letters in literature.