A country gentleman reads too many books about knights, names his tired horse Rocinante, and rides out to fix the world — starting with thirty or forty windmills.
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Don Quixote is the first modern novel and still the funniest — a madman and a realist riding side by side, arguing about what the world actually is. The famous episodes are self-contained gems: the windmills, the helmet of Mambrino, the puppet show.
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