Cervantes' Don Quixote has long been seen as the first modern novel, indeed as the fountainhead of European and American fiction, the work that teaches us both how to read and the ways that the world reads us. As we follow the meandering path of the deluded Don on his ancient horse, accompanied by his faithful squire Sancho Panza, we learn how to feel, how to think. As Nabokov said, Don Quixote "stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon." In this SDG, we will read the novel in Edith Grossman's acclaimed translation, about 85 pages a week. We will conclude by discussing the novel's impact on later art and culture, taking Picasso's etchings of Don Quixote and Dale Wasserman's filmed musical, The Man of La Mancha, as jumping-off points and ending with a clip of Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle.