Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself in the England of King Arthur. The tough minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity,...

Tells the adventures of an eccentric hidalgo who adopted the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha when brain became addled from reading too many romances on knighthood. Don Quixote has known most of the misfortunes that can befall a man and yet remains of good humor and stout heart