Inside the story
Meet Alonso Quijano
Alonso Quijano is a middle-aged nobleman, known as the gentleman of La Mancha, whose heavy reading of chivalric romances has unsettled his grasp of reality. At the story’s outset, he reinvents himself as Don Quixote, a knight-errant determined to live by the ideals of those books.
On the page
A gentleman bordering on fifty, of hardy habit, spare and gaunt-featured, lean and weather-dried from early rising and hunting, with a long thin face and a grave, abstracted look.
