Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1547–1616
Librarian’s score9.5Claude · AI
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An old man reads too many romances and rides out to be a knight, with a practical farmer at his side. What begins as parody turns into a long conversation between two people who change each other, and in the second part the characters know they are in a book. Much of what novels have done since is already here, done with warmth.