Don Quixote

Synopsis

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.  It is considered as the best fiction work ever written and became the classic of Western Literature.  There are references that this novel has been translated in highest number of languages other than Bible.

Alonso Quixano the protagonist reads many chivalric romances and portrays himself as knight-errant.  In his quest to fight against his imaginary villains, he lands himself into troubles only to be beaten up by the real characters.  He is brought back to his house and his chivalry books are destroyed by his in keeper while he was unconscious in bed.

Written in two parts with a gap of decade between the two volumes, Don Quixote has received direct references in famous writings like the Alexander Dumas's "The Three Musketeers", and Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". 

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