Man Who Invented Fiction

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain''s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside...