Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes about a middle-aged gentleman, whom the book is named after, from the region of La Mancha in central Spain.
Don Quixote develops some chivalrous ideas from the books he has read, taking up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and fight evil.
The First Part
By riding the roads of Spain on an old horse by the name of Rocinante, Don Quixote searches for glory and grand adventure. He eventually gives up food, shelter and comfort for a peasant woman named Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess.
This adventure is deemed therefore as a failure, and his second expedition is much more fruitful as he has an accomplice in Sancho Panza, who he manages to convince to come along by promising to make Sancho the wealthy governor of an isle.
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