{"product_id":"2026100012092-secondhand-the-ingenious-gentleman-don-quixote-de-la-mancha","title":"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely regarded as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works of literature ever written, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha chronicles the absurd yet profoundly moving adventures of Alonso Quijano, a middle-aged Spanish nobleman so consumed by tales of chivalry that he reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote. Accompanied by his loyal, earthy squire Sancho Panza, he charges across the sun-scorched plains of La Mancha — tilting at windmills he mistakes for giants, defending damsels who need no defending, and pursuing a vision of heroic glory in a world that has long since moved on. Miguel de Cervantes masterfully constructs a narrative that is simultaneously a sharp parody of medieval romance and a tender meditation on the nature of idealism, reality, and the stories we tell ourselves to endure. The interplay between the deluded but noble Quixote and the pragmatic Sancho creates one of literature's most enduring double acts, while Cervantes' layered, self-referential prose anticipates modern metafiction by centuries. Presented here in the distinguished Oxford Library of the World's Great Books edition, with illustrations by José and Luis Jiménez y Aranda, this is an edition that invites the question every reader must ultimately answer: who is the greater fool — the man who dreams impossible dreams, or the world too cynical to dream at all?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070625218779,"sku":"2026100012092-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0b17594f-926f-4391-ae8b-1b3abc71a880.png?v=1794188239","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012092-secondhand-the-ingenious-gentleman-don-quixote-de-la-mancha","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}