Don Quixote

LibriVox recording of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (Translated by John Ormsby.) Read in English by Peter Dann. It is a curious paradox that while the two volumes of Don Quixote have been described as the "best novel of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature", the many episodes that make up the plot of this long work often prove to remarkably silly or sentimental, and occasionally lapse into riotous slapstick. But then, how liberating — for much of the fun of reading or listening to Don Quixote lies in discovering just how near we are in spirit to the