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In the first 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars contrary to the Ottoman Empire printed a novel. It had been the storyplot of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from learning too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he's a knight errant and cause on hilarious adventures. That account, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than some other book next to the Bible, making its writer, Miguel de Cervantes, the one most-read writer in human history. Cervantes do more than simply publish a best seller, though. He created a way of writing. This account is about how exactly Cervantes came to set-up what we have now call fiction - and exactly how fiction changed the earth. The Man Who Developed Fiction explores Cervantes' life and the earth he resided in, displaying how his affects converged in his work and exactly how his work - especially Don Quixote - radically altered the nature of books and created a fresh way of viewing the earth. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and research and how the world today would be unthinkable without it. 500 years after Cervantes' death, William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning with an immortal novel.

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