Stalking the Behemoth: Don Quixote

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
By Miguel de Cervantes (1605)

In the coming months, I plan to review a series of my favorite long books, "long" here defined as "six hundred pages or longer," in my "Stalking the Behemoth" series. I can't think of a better behemoth to start on than Don Quixote, considered by many to be the first modern novel. Of course, it could be argued that Quixote had a few forebearers--the Tale of Genji and Satyricon are the most famous--but the common argum...