Miguel Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and the author of the first modern novel. Born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547, he lived a remarkable life that included military service, imprisonment, and financial hardship. Don Quixote follows the adventures of an ageing gentleman who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and sets out as a knight-errant, accompanied by his loyal squire Sancho Panza. Published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered one of the most influential works in the history of literature and the foundation of the Western novel. Cervantes died in 1616. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers the novel that invented the novel — one of the greatest, funniest, and most profound works of literature ever written.