Don Quixote - Vol. 1 - ListenTheBook

Don Quixote - Vol. 1

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Action & Adventure Fiction

Authors: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra In Year : 1885

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Translator's Preface, part 1
Translator’s Preface, part 2
Some Commendatory Verses (11 poems)
Author's Preface
Dedication of Part 1, Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4-5
Chapters 6-8
Chapters 9-13
Chapters 14-15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25 part 1
Chapter 25 part 2
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapters 30-32
Chapter 33
Chapters 34-35
Chapters 36-38
Chapters 39-40
Chapter 41
Chapters 42-43
Chapters 44-45
Chapter 46
Chapters 47-49
Chapter 50
Chapters 51-52

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter.

The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. His "lady" is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farm girl by the illusion-struck "knight" (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel).

Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. (Summary from Wikipedia)