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Review: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote of La Mancha has his head turned by reading far too many books on knight errantry, until he believes that he himself is a gallant knight. Together with his long-suffering horse Rocinante and his loyal but gullible squire Sancho Panza on his beloved donkey, he sets out on many ill-fated adventures. Deluded into making everything around him fit into his ideas of the world of romantic chivalry he constructed from his readings, Don Quixote blunders into a series of hilariously mistaken escapades — taking a set of windmills as giants to be battled and vanquished, a travelling party on the road for a group of villains and an…