Don Quixote

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Don Quixote is a tragi-comic novel by Miguel Cervantes, written in two parts in the late 16th and early 17 century often considered one of the greatest of all time.

Its protagonist is a minor aristocrat who has read rather rather too many books of chivalry and imagines himself a knight battling supernatural and mythological beings in a mundane environment where they simply do not exist.

The humour derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to his demented worldview - however it is a measure of Cervantes' skill as an author that we come to sympathise with Don Quixote more than those who mock him, as much as the latter may be correct.