• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Deutsch
  • English
  • Italiano

Book Reports

help with reading books

  • Home
  • Summaries
  • Biographies
  • About

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547 in Alcala de Henares, Spain. He was one of 7 children in the family. It is assumed that his childhood was affected by his family constantly moving around. He was schooled in Seville and Madrid where he started to write his first poems.

When he turned twenty he went on a trip to Italy where he was introduced to the magical world of Italian literature. He was amazed by Boccaccio and Dante and his life in Italy was troublous. He entered many battles and spent 5 years in captivity in Algeria.

He came back to Spain and started working on his writing more. Despite the quantity and quality of his work, he could never impose as a writer. His novels weren’t a success and since he had no money he lived on the verge of bankruptcy.

The failure of the banker in charge of his finances got him to jail where he started working on his short story "Don Quixote". A parody and a novel will emerge from that short story and will bring him the worldwide success he craved.

After the novel "Don Quixote" he published ten short stories and started writing poems. Cervantes also wrote a sequel to the story of Don Quixote and it was a success in Europe and wider.

He is remembered as one of the best storytellers in Spain and worldwide and as one of the most significant writers of all time. He died in Madri

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Don Quixote" is a novel by a Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. It is one of the most significant works by Spanish and the worldwide literature. It is important because it has the first characteristics of novels that we know today such as a long, complex story, characterized characters, a clear critic of society and … [Read more...] about Don Quixote

Primary Sidebar

About Us

Book Reports is a website for those who need quick and effective help with organizing, reading, understanding and writing book reports that are fairly standard among classes, despite the subject of the … [more] about About

Top Authors

Alexander Pushkin Alexandre Dumas Anton Chekhov Bible Brothers Grimm Charles Dickens Charles Perrault Edgar Allan Poe Erich Kästner Ernest Hemingway Eugene Ionesco Fyodor Dostoyevsky Hans Christian Andersen J.R.R. Tolkien Jane Austen John Steinbeck Jules Verne Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain Moliere Ovid Rudyard Kipling Ursula K. LeGuin Virginia Woolf William Shakespeare
All authors >>

Recent book reports

The Secret Garden

"The Secret Garden" is one of the most popular children's novels written by Frances Hodgson … [more] about The Secret Garden

The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoyevsky's last novel was "The Brothers Karamazov", it was written over a period of a year … [more] about The Brothers Karamazov

Snow White

The Grimm brothers are the authors of many fairy tales that are well known to this day. They … [more] about Snow White

Beauty and the Beast

"Beauty and the Beast" is one of the most popular Perrault's fairy tales, but also more special … [more] about Beauty and the Beast

Cinderella

Charles Perrault is one of the most famous fairy tale writers, popular among children. Just … [more] about Cinderella

Copyright © 2015.–2021. Informativka. All rights reserved.

Deutsch | English | Italiano | Pусский