Despite Ruskin 's keen enthusiasm for Don Quixote in his childhood, he grew increasingly disaffected with both the novel and its author in his belief that the novel advocated a pernicious, because apparently unobtainable, ideal of 'Utopianism' ('Quixotism') ( Works, 12.56). Ruskin compared Thomas More's Utopia to Don Quixote as two of the most 'mischievous' works ever published ( Works, 37.12).