The pen is the tongue of the soul.

La pluma es lengua del alma

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic

Writing Self-expression

Speaker

Don Quixote

Author

Miguel de Cervantes

Source

Don Quixote

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1615 1610s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Spain Europe

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Original Citation

Cervantes, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha. Francisco de Robles, 1615

Current Citation

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The Ingenius History of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by John Rutherford. Penguin, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 16.

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