Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation), credited to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (Translated by John Ormsby.) Read in English by Expatriate Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.... The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality. It had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word "quixotic" and the epithet "Lothario." Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse and Wilhelm Meister. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)
• Author credits: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 75
• Listed recording duration: 19:34:31

Catalogue topics

• spanish literature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 75

1. 00 - Author's Preface — 11:35
2. 01 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 01 — 25:00
3. 02 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 02 — 10:41
4. 03 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 03 — 16:54
5. 04 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 04 — 11:21
6. 05 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 05 — 14:00
7. 06 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 06 — 12:39
8. 07 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 07 — 15:31
9. 08 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 08 — 16:30
10. 09 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 09 — 8:35
11. 10 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 10 — 19:34
12. 11 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 11 — 13:54
13. 12 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 12 — 14:19
14. 13 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 13 — 12:49
15. 14 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 14 — 24:17
16. 15 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 15 — 5:08
17. 16 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 16 — 21:08
18. 17 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 17 — 22:40
19. 18 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 18 — 18:15
20. 19 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 19 — 16:14
21. 20 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 20 — 18:42
22. 21 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 21 — 14:25
23. 22 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 22 — 17:07
24. 23 - Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Ch. 23 — 22:31

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