( or ; ), fully titled
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha , is a Spanish novel by
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615,
Don Quixote is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the
Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest
canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the
Bokklubben World Library collection that cites
Don Quixote as authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written".