...can anyone send me a link to a place where I can buy the book exactly as it was written? I have looked and looked but I cannot get a definite site that describes whether the book is in the original spanish or in a more modernized version.
Can it even be bought in the original Spanish?
Thanks
2006-10-27 14:08:53 · 5 answers · asked by redline2200 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Bought? Well, if you insist.
The Gutenberg Project is a group of volunteers who are attempting to convert books to free text files to be given away to anyone. The limit is, the copyrights must be expired or it is not legal to do it. Still, they currently have around 17, 000 books available for free download.
The Gutenberg Project has available free for the download, the book Etext #2000, Don Quijote, by Miguel Cervantes. To properly display it, you will need an editor which will display the Spanish characters, or a reader which lets you shut down and when you open up, it automatically returns to your place.
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
is the index. At the left, where it says E-text-no, enter 2000 and click GO.
You can downoad the text file; or a zipped version, or even an HTML version.
Free; free; free!!!!!!!!!!!
Still, if you prefer the hard copy, check with a good book store, but I can't guarantee it will be in the original Spanish, any more than I can guarantee #2000 is in medieval Spanish. The "j" in his name indicates, though that it is probably in Spanish-Spanish, since in Mexican Spanish, it would correctly be Quixote.
Edit: I just looked at my copy, and in 1604 someone certified this corresponded to the original. A clue.
Edit #2, read the legal stuff, but I am confident if you prefer printed copy, it is legal to make a hard copy, but it is going to take a lot of paper since it is 2 MB of text.
2006-10-27 14:28:46 · answer #1 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to find out is to get a copy of the Spanish version and see if you can read it. If not, learn some more!
2016-05-22 02:04:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you can buy it in more-or-less the original form. However, be sure to get a text with footnotes, as it's hard going without them. This one should do nicely:
http://www.amazon.com/Quijote-Mancha-Miguel-Cervantes-Saavedra/dp/8420467286/sr=1-1/qid=1162004229/ref=sr_1_1/103-9920831-2219048?ie=UTF8&s=books
2006-10-27 15:58:24 · answer #3 · answered by Drew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original would be about as accessible as a brick wall.
Best of luck.
2006-10-27 14:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by buzzfeedbrenny 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-27 14:15:38 · answer #5 · answered by xinnybuxlrie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋