Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman

Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight—errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through 16th century Spain.

“Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes’s womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality. . . . He stands for everything that is...