Don Quixote
Meet Alonso Quijano, a Spanish noble who, after devouring one too many chivalric romances, decides to become the knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha. With his loyal, pragmatic squire Sancho Panza by his side, Quixote embarks on a series of absurd, often slapstick, adventures across 17th-century Spain, tilting at windmills he perceives as giants, battling flocks of sheep he mistakes for armies, and endlessly championing his imagined lady-love, Dulcinea del Toboso. This sprawling epic, published in two volumes a decade apart, brilliantly charts the collision of a fantastical inner world with a stubbornly mundane reality, offering both uproarious comedy and profound meditation on the nature of heroism, madness, and storytelling itself.
