Don Quixote

Name: Don Quixote
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (51 reviews)
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
ISBN: 9781848948754

Author: Miguel De Cervantes

Narrator: Andrew Sachs

Unabridged: 2 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 10/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

DON QUIXOTE - by far the most famous book in Spanish literature - was originally intended by Cervantes as a skit on traditional popular ballads, but he also parodied the romances of chivalry. As a result he produced one of the most entertaining adventure stories of all time and created, in Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, two of the greatest characters in fiction. By 1615, when he died 'old, a soldier, a gentleman and poor!' his work was already famous both in English and in French, and is now regularly nominated as the world's greatest work of fiction.

About Miguel De Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra lived an unsettled life of hardship and adventure. After studying in Madrid (1568-69), he took part in the sea battle at Lepanto (1571) and in 1575 he was captured by pirates. Cervantes spent five years as a slave until his family could raise enough money to pay his ransom. His first play, LOS TRATOS DE ARGEL (1580), was based on his experiences as a Moorish captive. During the next 20 years he led a nomadic existence, also working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at least twice, and wrote DON QUIXOTE in prison.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” Why did no one tell me this book is hilarious? I can't believe it took me so long to finally pick it up. Don Quixote is densest in the early chapters, which are packed full of footnot......more

Goodreads review by Vit

All the chivalric romance is long dead and gone… But the travesty Don Quixote is alive and kicking… The strange ones are the fittest… …the castellan brought out the book in which he had jotted down the hay and barley for which the mule drivers owed him, and, accompanied by a lad bearing the butt of a......more

Goodreads review by Nayra.Hassan

يا عشاق القراءة..ها هي نهاية كل منا..فارس بلا قضية..بطل بلا بطولة؛ عاشق بلا حبيبة بصراحة بدأت في قراءتها مرغمة..من يود قراءة كلاسيكيات القرن 17..؟ و لكن سرعان ما جذبني كيخانا الطيب الشغوف بقراءة قصص الفرسان..فيحول نفسه لفارس احمق ويسافر خلف هدف وهمي.. من اجمل ما تم كتابته عن الحماقة عندما تتملك من الإنس......more