With his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote sets off on picaresque adventures in 16th-century Spain. Known as one of the great treasures of Western literature, Cervantes provides a biting, hilarious satire that still remains influential today.

La Galatea se suele clasificar como novela pastoril, pero es un vehiculo para un estudio psicologico del amor. Cervantes tuvo durante toda su vida un altisimo concepto de su novela y la intencion de publicar la segunda parte, pero murio sin haberlo hecho. Se ambienta en algun lugar -entre ideal y real- a orillas del rio Tajo. Elicio y Erastro son dos pastores enamorados de Galatea, una hermosisima pastora que reune todas las demas virtudes de las heroinas cervantinas: discrecion, inteligencia, buen juicio, honestidad y bondad. Pero Galatea adora su independencia espiritual y no quiere verse...

Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best...