I have read many classic novels.  I have even struggled through Don Quixote.
Ah, the man of the mancha!  His windmills and donkey - LOL!  I'm actually trying to go through some of the classics as an adult now - some are still hard to understand.
Yes! ol' Sancho Panza, poor fellow.  Have you read much Dickens?
No, not much Dickens.  I'd like to, but have only read bits and pieces.  My daughter and I are trying to struggle through the Scarlet Letter right now.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. 
Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
"The Scarlet Letter" was one of the first mass-produced books in America. It was
costume from his trunk, and transforms himself into Alonso Quijano, an old gentleman who has read so many books of chivalry and thought so much about injustice that he has lost his mind and set out as a knight-errant. Quijano renames himself Don Quixote de La Mancha, and goes off to find adventures with his "squire", Sancho Panza. ("Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)")
Don Quixote warns Sancho that they are always in danger of being attacked by Quixote's mortal