Is the Spanish book Don Quijote the most famous book ever?

[dude]

Which do you think is the most famous then?

After the Bible. I honestly don't know. I am not a big book person myself. After some thought and considering the age of the book, it is possible it is the most famous. I would not discard the possibility.

[dude]

Which do you think is the most famous then?

I had to go and ask Google:
The greatest novel ever: Don Quijote
http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...atures.fiction

Best selling book of all time: Don Quijote. This is over a span of 400 years.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.c...ers.htm#page=1

Wikipedia's most sold book: A Tale of Two Cities. It does mention Don Quijote, but it is not in the list because they don't have accurate sales records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

Based on this data the book is definitively very famous. But difficult to say it is the most famous. I would say it is one of the most famous.

[Cristiano viejo]

To me perhaps Don Quijote, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, Moby Dick and Around the world in eighty days.

I would add Sherlock Holmes.

[Comte Arnau]

Don Quixote is the most published and translated book in history after Bible, so yes.

It is the most translated of all literary books in Spanish. But several other books from other languages have been more translated.

If anything, I'd say it it the most translated of all 'complicated-to-translate books' after the Bible. In fact, several of the translations of the Quixote are abridged or only of Part 1.

[Cristiano viejo]

It is the most translated of all literary books in Spanish. But several other books from other languages have been more translated.

If anything, I'd say it it the most translated of all 'complicated-to-translate books' after the Bible. In fact, several of the translations of the Quixote are abridged or only of Part 1.

As a founding work of modern Western literatura and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as in the World Library's 2002 list, "The 100 Best Books of All Time", which cited Don Quixote as authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written", and has been translated into more languages than any book other than the Bible.

It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

[LostInParadise]

Creo que si, además tiene el mérito de que ad firencia de otros libros no hay 800 millones de películas, como pasa con los libros o histórias en inglés, que se vuelven más famosos de lo que ya son, gracias a eso.

Igual para mi los más famosos son los cuentos de hadas, imposible no conocerlos, blancanives, rapunzel, caperucita, la cenicienta etc. aunque no se si clasifican como "libro" pero si como literatura o no?

[Cristiano viejo]

Creo que si, además tiene el mérito de que ad firencia de otros libros no hay 800 millones de películas, como pasa con los libros o histórias en inglés, que se vuelven más famosos de lo que ya son, gracias a eso.

Buen punto.

Igual para mi los más famosos son los cuentos de hadas, imposible no conocerlos, blancanives, rapunzel, caperucita, la cenicienta etc. aunque no se si clasifican como "libro" pero si como literatura o no?

Mejor punto. También pensé en ellos, como bien dices es imposible no conocerlos, son cuentos populares, supongo que basados en libros como es lógico. Aunque bueno, en principio son cuentos infantiles, pero sin duda son más famosos que cualquier otro libro, sí señora.

[Lithium]

I personally do not like this novel and I think that it's totally overrated.

[Empecinado]

I personally do not like this novel and I think that it's totally overrated.

If you don't know Spanish hardly you will appreciate it, many parts of the book are untranslatable.

[Dombra]

Maybe not number one but definitely within the top 10