Long ago, a man named Señor Quexada went mad. He had read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thought he was one. He decided to go forth and right the wrongs he encountered. As his faithful companion he selected Sancho Panza, a farmer from the neighborhood.
Señor Quexada gave himself a name more fitting for a knight—Don Quixote—and set off one evening with his squire. At dawn they came across what Don Quixote recognized as an army of monstrous giants. "Master!" cried Sancho Panza. "They are only windmills!" But Don Quixote knew what he had to do. . .
Perhaps the greatest hero of all literature, Don Quixote is the creation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Eric A. Kimmel skillfully and cleverly crystallizes the character, and with his powerful line and vibrant color Leonard Everett Fisher completes the funny, loving portrait.
—from the dust jacket
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