Articles and Resources to read and enjoy this classic:
- Cervantes’s Unparalleled Influence: The Man Who Invented Fiction
- Impossible Dreams: William Faulkner and Don Quixote
- Ana Maria Matute’s Favorite Books
- Which translation?
- 15 Things You Might Not Know About Don Quixote
- Cervantes y Lope de Vega, enemigos íntimos
CERVANTES
AUDIO BOOKS:
- In Spanish.
- Ormsby’s translation, the narrator is Roy McMillan.
- Edith Grossman’s translation narrated by George Guidall.
TRANSLATIONS:
- Thomas Shelton (1612)
- Peter Motteux (1712)
- Charles Jarvis (1742)
- Tobias Smollett (1755) – This one is recommended by professors who teach Don Quixote
- John Ormsby (1885)
- Samuel Putnam (1949)
- JM Cohen (1950)
- Walter Starkie (1954)
- Burton Raffel (1999)
- John Rutherford (2000)
- Edith Grossman (2003)
- James H Montgomery (2006)
- Gerald J Davis (2012)
My first response to starting DQ – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2019/01/musings-of-idle-reader.html