Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616 creator text utu 1999 monographic es 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Don Quijote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a Spanish novel published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. A minor nobleman reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant, recruiting a simple farm laborer as his squire. Together they embark on adventures where windmills become giants and inns transform into castles. This founding work of Western literature explores the collision between fantasy and reality, as its idealistic hero confronts a world that refuses to match his imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote Release date is 1999-12-01 an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Joaquin Cuenca Abela Original publication data not identified Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Fiction Knights and knighthood -- Spain -- Fiction Picaresque literature Romances PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133052.0 2000