Don Quixote

Don Quixote (Spanish: Don Quijote, see spelling and
pronunciation below), fully titled El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la
Mancha ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") is an early
novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created
a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moorish
historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli.

Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most
influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps
the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western
literature, it regularly appears at the top of lists of the greatest works of
fiction ever published. Don Quiote, is an incorrect
(anglicized) but common alternatively spelled name form found in older English
references.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.