Don Quixote

Our launch translation of the beloved Spanish classic Don Quixote is presented in a form that helps readers move from English into Cervantes' Spanish over the course of the book. It is an invitation both to language learning and literary adventure: a chance to encounter one of the foundational novels of world literature not merely as a translated artifact, but as a living work in its native tongue.

By the final chapter, you'll be reading entirely in the original language.

Sample

Part I, Chapter VIII

"Look, your worship," said Sancho; "what we see there are not gigantes but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the viento make the millstone go." "It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that thou art not used to this business of aventuras; those are gigantes; and if thou art afraid, away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat."

Part I, Chapter XI

"Happy the edad, happy the tiempo, to which the antiguos gave the nombre of dorada, not because in that fortunate edad the oro so coveted in this our hierro one was gained without trabajo, but because they that lived in it knew not the dos palabras 'mine' and 'thine'! In that blessed edad all cosas were in común; to win the daily alimento no labor was required of any save to stretch forth his mano and gather it from the sturdy robles that stood generously inviting him with their sweet ripe fruto."