The Quixote of Cervantes

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It was published on October 21st, 2003 and two months later on Christmas Eve, 2003 at Rose to be the ninth best selling book at Amazon.com. What this means is that thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people have experienced reading this book in recent months. A great boon to Cervantes desire to see a Quixote on everyone's bookshelf. Our collective hats should collectively be tipped in the direction of New York's upper West side to contract gradually either Grossman on her achievement.

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

These episodes cover Chapters 1-14.

In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the author and translation, and then we dive into the first four chapters of the story. In Episode 2, our hero recruits the squire Sancho Panza and goes tilting after some windmills. Also we hear a whole story about a guy who died from lovesickness.

Join us as we meet this errant knight-errant!

Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.

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