Don Quixote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes, 1605


His head filled with the wonderful adventures of knights-errant, Don Quixote, who is fifty, tall, meager, and lantern-jawed, styles himself "The Knight of the Woeful Countenance" and sets out on a scarecrow of a horse, with the peasant, Sancho Panza, as his squire.