Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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born

September 19, 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain

died

April 23, 1616

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Drama

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus Don Quixote is often considered the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his p...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 43,722 ratings · 2,324 reviews · 295 distinct works

	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Rutherford (Translator, Introduction), Roberto González Echevarría (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 39,948 ratings — published 1605 — 1063 editions	My rating:
	Don Quijote De La Mancha (I) 3.84 avg rating — 2,207 ratings — 51 editions	My rating:
	Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lesley Lipson (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 1613 — 105 editions	My rating:
	Don Quixote: Abridged Edition by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Walter Starkie (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1605 — 33 editions	My rating:
	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha, 13 4.31 avg rating — 96 ratings	My rating:
	The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, WIlliam Rolandson (Translator), Ben Okri (Foreword by) 3.85 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Novelas ejemplares/Entremeses/La galatea 4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Don Quixote de La Mancha - Vol II 4.08 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 1954 — 115 editions	My rating:
	Entremeses 3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1978 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Abriendo Puertas: Antologia de Literatura en Espanol: Tomo II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Unamuno 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books , humor , reading

2,165 people liked it

“The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

tags: classic , funny , humor

154 people liked it

“Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de La Mancha

tags: love , women

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Classic Read January-February 2012

We have a lot of books to choose from. As always the winner will be the book with the most votes.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

3 votes, 15.8%

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

3 votes, 15.8%

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

3 votes, 15.8%

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

2 votes, 10.5%

Howards End by E.M. Forster

2 votes, 10.5%

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

2 votes, 10.5%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2 votes, 10.5%

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1 vote, 5.3%

Utopia by Thomas More

1 vote, 5.3%

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore

0 votes, 0.0%

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett

0 votes, 0.0%

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

0 votes, 0.0%

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

0 votes, 0.0%

19 total votes

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