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Don Quixote

 By: Miguel de Cervantes  Category: Fiction  Published: 1605
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Recommended by Mary Gaylord, Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Don Quixote’s ultimate aim is to become a book in which he’s the main character. That’s his entire purpose in Volume 1. In Volume 2, he discovers there is a book about his life, in which he’s the main character, but now he worries whether the book gets his story right. And at this point, Miguel de Cervantes shows us that he’s increasingly interested not only in how novels are written, but in how history is written, history with a capital H.