Completed by Cervantes when he was in prison, Don Quixote is the tale of a man so passionate about reading he leaves home to live the life of his fictional heroes.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Ilan Stavans about his book, Quixote: The Novel and the World. Stavans was inspired by the Miguel de Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote, which turns 400 this year.

The fame of “Don Quixote,” the world’s most acclaimed novel, and even the fanfare of the fourth centenary, seem to have made little impression on La Mancha.

Ilan Stavans's new book, Don Quixote: The Novel and the World, examines Don Quixote's legacy, 4oo years later.

Printed front cover design with a green background that includes a photographic reproduction of a woman with short hair and a flower back tattoo, with her back turned to the viewer as she looks left.

Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” represents the soul of Spain perhaps in a way no other novel has achieved, says Rodriguez-Cepeda, 65. He first read it as a 12-year-old schoolboy in Madrid.

Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of ...

Even if you have never picked up a copy of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, you’re likely familiar with the story: one of delusional noblemen, portly ...

Today, Latino marriage equality and immigration reform activists can find solidarity in Cervantes' Don Quixote through the universality of love. The idea that life is a quest is not new, but the ...

In whatever name we are addressed, in actuality, we are Don Quixote. Let’s see why that is so. In the world of literature, Don Quixote is the only novel whose popularity has not come down even ...