The Story of Don Quixote

An elderly country gentleman, obsessed with books of chivalry, adopts the role of a knight-errant and embarks on a series of episodic adventures that mix comic misperception and moral reflection. Accompanied by a practical squire, he confronts imagined foes, rescues strangers, and suffers absurd mishaps such as battling windmills and mistaking inns for castles. Back home his neighbors inspect and purge his library while episodes within the journey interweave stories, poems, and encounters that probe illusion versus reality, friendship and folly, and the social reactions to literary madness.