Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote — A country gentleman from La Mancha reads so many chivalric romances that he sets out as the knight-errant Don Quixote, accompanied by the practical Sancho Panza, to right the world’s wrongs. Inns, windmills, and ordinary travelers become castles, giants, and adventures in his imagination. Cervantes’s two-part novel blends comedy, embedded stories, and metafiction while exploring reality and fantasy, friendship, ideals, and Spanish society.