"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." –
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." –Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" –Thomas Mann
"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality....The parody has become a paragon." –Vladimir Nabokov