Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

Don quixote is considered one of the greatest novels ever written. Author miguel de cervantes was a lot like his star character, out of step with most of his contemporaries. While serving as a tax collector for the spanish government he thought up the story that would later become don quixote. The book proved so popular that some one else actually wrote a sequel using cervantes story and characters - basically an early form of fan fiction. Cervantes was furious about this false quixote, especially since his imitator was making more money off the characters than he had. This prompted him to write his own part two, providing an official conclusion to the adventures of don qu