Once upon a time, 400 years ago, a writer named Cervantes...

   In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen...

Some articles to read:

• Spain reburies Cervantes, nearly 400 years after Don Quixote author's death &Remains of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, 'found in convent' (The Guardian)

• Chart: There are more Spanish speakers in the U.S. than in Spain &Why Spain searched for the bones of its greatest author (The Washington Post)

• BBC >>> Why is Shakespeare more celebrated than Cervantes?

Here's a bilingual edition of Don Quixote, where you can read the book both in Spanish and English.

By the way, have you ever heard of Monsignor Quixote? Who wrote this book?

What did the character Monsignor Quixote do as a job?

 

And talking about windmills, here's the film starred by Sir Alec Guinness:

 

   Would you like to read the book? in English? in Spanish?