Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 · Satire
An elderly Spanish gentleman reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind, renames himself Don Quixote, and sets off to revive knight-errantry in a world that has moved on entirely. The first modern novel and still one of the funniest, and saddest, explorations of idealism ever written.
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