Edith Grossmans definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the worlds first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixotechronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, youve never read DonQuixote.