This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:
https://librivox.org/don-quixote-vol-2-ormsby-translation-by-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.... The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality. It had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word "quixotic" and the epithet "Lothario." Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse and Wilhelm Meister. ( Wikipedia)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5946
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin
Genres for the project: Literary Fiction; Humorous Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: spanish literature
============================================ - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Chapter [number] of Don Quixote, Vol. 2. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Don Quixote, Vol. 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by John Ormsby [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Don Quixote, Vol. 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by John Ormsby. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Don Quixote, Vol. 2, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by John Ormsby"
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes. - Example filename donquixotevol2_##_cervantes_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. donquixotevol2_01_cervantes_128kb.mp3)
- Example ID3 V2 tags ID3 tags are now optional. They are added automatically during cataloging.
Artist: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)
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