DON QUIXOTE, by Miguel de Cervantes

Alonso Quixano, a fiftyish retired country gentleman, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually loses his mind from little sleep and food and because of so much reading. He decides to go out as a knight-errant in search of adventure. He designates a neighboring farm girl, Aldonza Lorenzo, as his ladylove, renaming her Dulcinea del Toboso, while she knows nothing about this. Although the first half of the novel is almost completely farcical, the second half is serious and philosophial about the theme of deception. Don Quixote's imaginings are made the butt of outrageously cruel practical jokes. Sancho eventually does get his imaginary island governorship and unexpectedly proves to be wise and practical; though this too, ends in disaster. The novel ends with Don Quixote's complete disillusionment, with his melancholic return to sanity and renunciation of chivalry, and finally, his death.

Don Quixote is often nominated as one of the world's greatest works of fiction.

Don Quixote's importance in literature has produced a large and varied cultural and artistic legacy. The cultural legacy of Don Quixote is one of the richest and most varied of any work of fiction ever produced. It stands in a unique position between medieval chivalric romance and the modern novel. The former consist of disconnected stories with little exploration of the inner life of even the main character. Quixote's adventures tend to involve situations in which he attempts to apply a knight's sure, simple morality to situations in which much more complex issues are at hand. Because all of this I really recommend to read this novel since it is one of the greatest, it has action, love, it is creative, it has crazy and funny things, i really enjoyed and liked reading this novel.