Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes follows an aging country gentleman who reads so many chivalric romances that he remakes himself as a knight-errant and sets out with Sancho Panza to right the world's wrongs. Their misadventures turn inns into castles, windmills into giants, and ordinary roads into a grand test of imagination, pride, friendship, and delusion.
This is a foundational comic novel for readers who want classic literature with adventure, satire, and surprising tenderness. Cervantes uses Don Quixote's fantasies to examine storytelling itself: how books shape identity, how ideals collide with social reality, and why a foolish quest can still reveal courage, loyalty, and deep human longing.