Don Quixote Audio Book CDs Unabridged

Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Reader: David Case

This madman attacks windmills, believes a peasant girl to be a lady, and dedicates himself to righting wrongs. Follow the adventures of Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza in this classic tale, loved by generations since its first publication in 1614. The "Man of La Mancha" is a symbol for us all of the virtues of perseverance and courage. Includes bonus PDF e-book. » Read More

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Publish Date: 11/10/2008
ISBN: 9781400109012

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Retells the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.

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"It will not be denied that the breaking point, the point where the modern world broke away laughing from this last medievalism--that the symbolic act and moment was 'Don Quixote'....I want to ask whether, if Don Quixote returned to-day with the same wild ways of knight errantry, it would not rather be the knight errant that was sensible and the world all around him that was crazy. The poor knight's mockers were in the morning of the modern world; for them a more solid science, a more subtle statecraft, were not only growing, but promising things....The rational world has turned out much more irrational than the Dark Ages....The nations have found more nonsense and nightmare in the build of guns than they ever did in the breaking of lances."

New York Times Book Review - G. K. Chesterton (9/15/12)

"When I was a young student in Latin American schools, we were constantly being asked to define the boundary between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age....for me the modern world begins when Don Quixote de la Mancha, in 1605, leaves his village, goes out into the world, and discovers that the world does not resemble what he has read about it."

- Carlos Fuentes ()

Author Bio:

As a young man, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra served in the military for several years. In 1571 he fought with the Spanish forces in the decisive battle of Lepanto against the Turks, where a wound maimed his left hand. He spent five years as a prisoner in Algiers; despite many daring escape attempts, he remained there until he was ransomed by his friends and family. Cervantes struggled to earn a living for most of his life and only turned to writing as a career in his later years. His misfortunes landed him in prison more than once, where according to legend, he wrote the first part of his greatest work "Don Quixote", the publication of which in 1605 finally brought him fame.

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