Don Quixote

An old man in La Mancha reads so many books of knight-errantry that he arms himself, takes the name Don Quixote, and rides out with Sancho Panza to right the world’s wrongs. He charges a line of windmills with his lance, takes a barber’s basin for a helmet, and sets galley slaves free only to be robbed by them the same afternoon. The book is long, and the laughter turns bitter before it is done.