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Don Quixote in England by Henry Fielding audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Henry Fielding takes Cervantes' famously book-addled knight and drops him into the very different, very worldly landscape of eighteenth-century England. Don Quixote and his long-suffering squire Sancho Panza arrive at a country inn expecting a realm of honor, damsels, and noble causes, only to find a bustling crossroads of hunters, servants, squires, and self-important local officials. Quixote, convinced that chivalry can still set the world right, reads every gesture as a challenge and every coincidence as a sign of destiny. Sancho, hungry, practical, and armed with earthy proverbs, tries to keep his master from tumbling headlong into yet another misunderstanding. Around them, Fielding parades a gallery of English types - boisterous country gentry, slippery professionals, and electioneering schemers - exposing how vanity, appetite, and politics can make ordinary people just as mad, in their own way, as the knight of La Mancha. Part literary send-up and part sharp social critique, Don Quixote in England turns a familiar pair of wanderers into a witty lens on ambition, corruption, and the stubborn human need to believe in grand stories.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:42:46) Chapter 2
(01:22:00) Chapter 3
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Don Quixote in England by Henry Fielding audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Henry Fielding takes Cervantes' famously book-addled knight and drops him into the very different, very worldly landscape of eighteenth-century England. Don Quixote and his long-suffering squire Sancho Panza arrive at a country inn expecting a realm of honor, damsels, and noble causes, only to find a bustling crossroads of hunters, servants, squires, and self-important local officials. Quixote, convinced that chivalry can still set the world right, reads every gesture as a challenge and every coincidence as a sign of destiny. Sancho, hungry, practical, and armed with earthy proverbs, tries to keep his master from tumbling headlong into yet another misunderstanding. Around them, Fielding parades a gallery of English types - boisterous country gentry, slippery professionals, and electioneering schemers - exposing how vanity, appetite, and politics can make ordinary people just as mad, in their own way, as the knight of La Mancha. Part literary send-up and part sharp social critique, Don Quixote in England turns a familiar pair of wanderers into a witty lens on ambition, corruption, and the stubborn human need to believe in grand stories.
For ad-free listening try our premium subscription
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:42:46) Chapter 2
(01:22:00) Chapter 3
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