Miguel de Cervantes's novel "Don Quixote" tells the story of an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he decides to become a knight-errant. It is considered one of the most influential works of Western literature, pioneering the modern novel form.
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Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote in First Novels
Held in the First Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Murasaki Shikibu — The Tale of Genji (1010)
- Chariton — Callirhoe (50)
- Petronius — Satyricon (65)
- Apuleius — The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) (170)
- Bāṇabhaṭṭa — Kadambari (625)
- Thomas Malory — Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)
- William Baldwin — Beware the Cat (1553)
- Aphra Behn — Oroonoko (1688)
- Daniel Defoe — Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Jonathan Swift — Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
- Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl — The Improvement of Human Reason (Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan) (1160)
- Wu Cheng'en — Journey to the West (1592)