Don Quixote (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Miguel de Cervantes, John Ormsby - translator

Narrated by: Michael Page

Don Quixote, a man driven by chivalrous ideals and wild delusions, adopts sword and lance as a knight-errant to defend the weak, slay the ignoble, and win the heart of the farm girl he envisions as a princess. In his world of fantasy - where inns are castles, peasants are kings, and windmills are beasts - Quixote, his nag, and his sound but devoted squire, Sancho Panza, set forth on a picaresque adventure conceivable only to a man obsessed.

One part legendary quest, one part metareflection of that very legend, Don Quixote remains, after four centuries, one of the most radical, profound, playful, and heartbreaking epics ever dreamed.

Revised edition: Previously published as Don Quixote, this edition of Don Quixote (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

A Long Tale Need be Heard

It’s a tome I thought, at times, would never end, though by the time it did it was so sad to say goodbye to my good and dear friends, the Knight Errant and his Sancho.
Surely Monty Python was inspired by the brilliant idiocy of this adventurous tale. I found myself speaking in a more colorful and droll way during the reading of Don Quixote. The language sounds completely modern, though it was written in the 17th century. It goes to show that people are people and haven’t changed much, except that we don’t speak nearly as nicely as they did back then.
For young and old, this book is a must!

Don Quixote Lives On

I don't remember Don Quixote being such a long book but the narration was wonderful and I enjoyed every minute.

Pleasantly surprised

The narrator should receive an award because he was brilliant. I didn’t expect the story to make me laugh out loud. I absolutely enjoyed this book.

A Classical Story Marvelously Performed

Audible makes this novel, with all its literary playfulness, possible to complete. Written more than four hundred years ago, the performances of various characters bring to light situations that still exist to this day. 🎭 📚🎭📚

What a wild story!

He really was just going about his days LARPing. This was such an intense book, it was hard at first but like Sancho I got caught up in the game. 5 of 5 I will listen to it again.