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Don Quixote certainly reveals much narrative power, considerable humor, a mastery of dialogue, and a forcible style. Of the two parts written by Cervantes, the first has ever remained the favourite. The second part is inferior to it in humorous effect; but, nevertheless, the second part shows more constructive insight, better delineation of character, an improved style, and more realism and probability in its action.
In 1613, he published a collection of tales, the Exemplary Novels, some of which had been written earlier. On the whole, the Exemplary Novels are worthy of the fame of Cervantes; they bear the same stamp of genius as Don Quixote. The [[Pirate|picaroon]] strain, already made familiar in Spain by the [[Lazarillo de Tormes]] and his successors, appears in one or another of them, especially in the ''Rinconete y Cortadillo'', which is the best of all. He also published the ''Viaje del Parnaso'' in 1614, and in 1615, the ''Eight Comedies and Eight New Interludes''. At the same time, Cervantes continued working on ''Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda'', a novel of adventurous travel completed just before his death, and which appeared posthumously in January, 1617.
===Death===
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