About the book: 1962 / The romantic and tragic fate of the great Spanish writer and playwright Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra ( 1547–1616) has more than once served as a source of literary works. One of them is this book for children, written by the now deceased Soviet writer Emma Iosifovna Vygodskaya. In the pre-war years, the book was published under the title “The Algerian Prisoner” (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Spanish Soldier Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote”»).