Don Quixote Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Don Quixote Volume 2, 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.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Don Quixote Volume 2 (of 2), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by John Ormsby. 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 farmgirl 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) There are recordings of Section 26 by two different readers. The zip file includes both. Variety is the spice of life!

Recording facts

• Recording title: Don Quixote Volume 2
• Author credits: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 21:31:44

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure
• quixote
• audio books

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 00 - Dedication and Author's Preface — 16:54
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 32:24
3. 02 - Chapters 2-3 — 33:33
4. 03 - Chapters 4-5 — 31:44
5. 04 - Chapters 6-7 — 25:59
6. 05 - Chapters 8-9 — 28:14
7. 06 - Chapters 10-11 — 38:21
8. 07 - Chapters 12-13 — 34:02
9. 08 - Chapter 14 — 24:50
10. 09 - Chapters 15-16 — 27:29
11. 10 - Chapters 17-18 — 48:38
12. 11 - Chapters 19-20 — 35:13
13. 12 - Chapters 21-22 — 37:21
14. 13 - Chapters 23-24 — 42:38
15. 14 - Chapters 25-26 — 39:50
16. 15 - Chapters 27-28 — 31:23
17. 16 - Chapters 29-30 — 30:24
18. 17 - Chapter 31 — 17:56
19. 18 - Chapter 32 — 28:58
20. 19 - Chapters 33-34 — 39:26
21. 20 - Chapters 35-36 — 30:44
22. 21 - Chapters 37-39 — 25:29
23. 22 - Chapters 40-41 — 39:42
24. 23 - Chapters 42-43 — 24:50

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