Don Quixote
Don Quixote
A country gentleman renames himself a knight and rides out to enforce the plots of chivalric books. Cervantes’s novel is the comedy of taking reading literally. The link is to a public-domain English translation.
Author
Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes sent Don Quixote out to live by the rules of books he had read too well. The result is a comedy about reading itself. The link here is to a public-domain English translation.