Don+Quixote

=Don Quixote=

//Don Quixote// is a Spanish novel written in two parts (1605 and 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The book is written as both a comedic farce and a philosophical study of good and evil, right and wrong, and truth and fiction. The novel was a tremendous success and is considered the best example of fiction in Spain's Golden Age of Literature.

The story follows an older country gentleman named Alonso Quixano, who has become so obsessed with books about knights and chivalry, and has read so many of them, that he begins to go mad. Quixano suddenly considers himself a knight errant whose mission is to wander the plains of La Mancha and do away with evil doers. He renames himself Don Quixote and he sets out on many adventures with his squire, Sancho Panza. He commits his acts of chivalry in the name of his lady love, Dulcinea de Toboso, who he sees as a princes, but in reality is a homely peasant woman.

On these adventures Don Quixote sees things in a different perspective then everyone else sees. For example, when he comes across a set of windmills he believes they are giants and starts to attack them. It is a super funny book, but is for super advanced readers who have good imaginations and, like Don Quixote, want to see the good in everything.