{"date":"April 18","id":"04-18","intro":["Reading too many romances of knights and valorous deeds caused a poor Spanish gentleman to polish up his great-grandfather’s armor, rechristen his old nag, and sally forth. “Don Quixote,” besides holding a secure niche in literature as the work that quashed the romantic school of knight-errantry, is at the same time one of the most widely-read stories in the world."],"minutes":24,"readings":[{"author":"Miguel de Cervantes","end":28,"start":17,"volume":14,"work":"Don Quixote"}],"slug":"april-18","status":"proofread","title":"Ready for Adventures and Conquests","url":"/harvard-classics/april-18/","words":4767}