“Don Quixote is the most important Spanish literary work; its author, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is one of the four main writers of world literature, along with Homer, Shakespeare and Dante; the plot and the various episodes of the novel are known by almost everyone, and everyone talks of Don Quixote and Sancho or have heard of them and their adventures; but only two out of ten Spaniards say have read Cervantes’ masterpiece complete. And four out of ten they have done for personal interest or general culture.”