Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is one of those books that everybody has heard of but almost nobody has read. Of course, it is more than 1,000 pages long, not to mention being very old. In fact, it’s 400 years old this year.

How many books are in Don Quixote?

Don Quixote is actually two books. When I completed the first book, I thought I was done. The second book was written later and I thought there was little reason to read a second volume of the story.

What mental illness did Don Quixote have?

Apparently, Quixote also possesses a paranoid personality disorder, evidenced by his eccentric, odd behavior. He exhibits all of the classical signs-from his suspicions of others to his inability to take the blame for his actions.