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'Don Quixote,' a Must-Read for the Ages

By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET

If there's one summer read you shouldn't pass up, it's Don Quixote -- at least according to the Nigerian author Ben Okri, who voted it the most meaningful literary work of all time.

Mr. Okri was not alone. Miguel de Cervantes's 17th-century tale of a hapless knight who mistakes inns for castles and windmills for giants topped a new list...

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