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Podcast: Classic Audiobook Collection
Episode: Don Quixote Vol. 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ Full Audiobook
Description: Don Quixote Vol. 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra audiobook. 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...