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Don Quixote: Penguin Classics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Miguel Cervantes (Author), John Rutherford (Author), Kayvan Novak (Narrator),

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Kayvan Novak, Josh Cohen, Alistair Petrie and Richard Hughes.

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the ageing Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety.

Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature with which its disordered protagonist is obsessed.

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Listening Length	39 hours and 17 minutes
Author	Miguel Cervantes, John Rutherford
Narrator	Kayvan Novak, Josh Cohen, Alistair Petrie, Richard Hughes
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	23 April 2020
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B083JJVLVW
Best Sellers Rank	27,547 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 895 in Classic Literature 2,347 in Classic Literature & Fiction

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Aiden

This is not good.

Reviewed in Australia on 9 September 2020

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This is so misleading.
The book description on the web and the coverpage don't say anything about it as actually only the book of volume 4 starting at chapter 37???
I was expecting the holistic book! Amazon do your job please.
Although am I the only one who have this situation? Why do others seem to have the entire book .... ?

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Nick

Not a great print

Reviewed in Australia on 30 September 2019

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Low-quality print job, I recommend looking elsewhere

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Mr. C. A. Lachman

Great Book

Reviewed in Australia on 25 December 2017

Well worth reading - maybe not the greatest book ever written for me but a great read nevertheless. Now I would like to read it again, perhaps another translation to see the differences and maybe to appreciate this one more. Good bye Don Quixote for now but we will meet again very shortly. Firstly however, I need to read a little of the history of Spain during the early 1600’s to better appreciate your tale. We will meet again soon !

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Tom Ryan

Glad I have read it, but …

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2020

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Don Quixote is a character that has been absorbed into our culture. Most ‘educated’ people of a certain age are familiar with the image of ‘tilting at windmills’ and understand what we mean by quixotic. So it seemed about time for me to actually read the book.

It is regarded as the first modern European novel, published in the early 1600s. It does work as a story in the way that I think a modern novel should, but it is hardly a great one by modern standards – novels have evolved in the past 400 years.

I approached the book with the best of intentions. Quixote is a deluded fool who decides to adopt the life of a chivalrous knight of old, protecting the weak and avenging wrongs. So I was well disposed to him in the early stages of the book. Today, we might regard Quixote as having mental health issues. If this is the case, perhaps we should not laugh at his misfortunes but should condemn those who make fun or take advantage of him.
However, I found him an increasingly unappealing character. In his not so humble opinion, he and only he can decide what is right and what is wrong. He overturns the decisions of the legal system to free a group of convicted criminals because he disagrees with the rulings. So I was quite pleased when one of these newly freed convicts robs him. He takes no responsibility for the consequences of his actions and at the same time presumes that he should never pay for his lodgings or food. After all he sees himself as one to whom all is permitted all (to use a phrase from a Dostoyevsky translation). I came to view Quixote as a proto-type social justice warrior with all the arrogance that implies and enjoyed some hosts having considerable fun at his expense.

Don Quixote is probably one of those books that we should read for historic reasons, but will be glad to have finished.

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Philoctetes

A most gratifying translation of the legendary Spanish novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 December 2020

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Lost in La Mancha one may very well be, assuming one is keeping company with the celebrated jelly brain, Don Quixote, Knight of the Sorry Face, and his devoted but equally muddled squire, Sancho, but in all seriousness where else would you rather be? For as a wise woman once said to me, wherever you are you're there. So, how can one be lost when there is pleasant, foolish company to be had?

Well, one can get overburdened by a less than invigorating translation. Before this I was on the Oxford Classics one, 250+ years old, and in need of restoration. Moving on to this Penguin Classics one has been a godsend. It is most delightful. I deduct a star for two faults, as I see 'em. First, annoyingly, the chapters are given in Roman numerals, which would be fine except that makes it much harder to find the notes at the back. The problem could have been solved by marking the notes section with a header saying Notes to Pages - to -, but that isn't there. The other disappointment is that, unlike the older Penguin translation (Cohen's, I think), this one does not have the illustrations that it did (Doré's?). I read Cohen's back in my youth, and the illustrations were charming. I also rather preferred 'Knight of the Sad Countenance' to the newer and plainer 'Sorry Face' (or Sad Face, whichever it is here).

But anyway, those two things aside, I think this is an admirable translation and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

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An all time classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2018

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It took time to get into the tale. The first third was a struggle as my mind adapted to the language and flow of the book. But after a while I got the rhythm, the humour and the joy this book brings. I was actually sad to end my travels with Don Quixote and Rancho Panza.

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Knights, thrills, adventure galore - what more could you ask for?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2018

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A tale of chivalry and adventure. Don Quixote has something for everyone. Originally bought for a module at university (which didn’t go ahead eventually). Not that it was an issue as I found myself that fascinated by the story I continued to read it for pleasure. The comedic, loyal sidekick of Quixote - Sancho Panza - makes the story hilarious to read, as does the gallant knight’s delusionary ideals of grandeur. Guaranteed to play on your heartstrings towards the end as well. A good book but a heavy one for some younger readers. Still something that can be enjoyed by all. Cervantes’s finest masterpiece as translated into English by the marvellous people at Penguin Classics publishings.

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Inkspill

first part hilarious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2019

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I finally got around to reading this one and was shocked by how funny the first part, a literary parody, was. Don Quixote, not a likely here but he certainly tries. Good thing he’s got his side-kick, Sancho Panza close by.

The second part was a change, more sombre in tone but I thought it worked and together made a great read.

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