Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616), was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, best known for his immortal masterpiece Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature and certainly the greatest of the Spanish language. It is one of the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" and the Russian author Dostoyevsky called it "the ultimate and most sublime word of human thinking".

External links

• Instituto Cervantes New York
• Etexts by Cervantes from Project Gutenberg
• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Spanish web site with multiple Cervantes links and audio of whole of Don Quixote
• Famous Hispanics
• The Cervantes Project with biographies and chronology
• Entry in the 1911 edition Encyclopedia_Brittanica
• Life and times before writing Don Quixote
• Ibero-American Electronic Text Series presented online by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.