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Originally Posted by issybird

I’ve moved this to the Reading Recommendations forum, as you’ll have seen.

Frankly, I’d love a boot in the arse to reread Don Quixote. I’ve meant to for years, so I’d be delighted to work this out. The Edith Grossman translation is already sitting on my Kobo. The timing’s good, too; as it hasn’t been that long since I’ve come off the internet group read of War and Peace.

Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of Susan Wise Bauer, but that’s irrelevant. If she’s the catalyst, whatever it takes.

Thanks for the move - I debated for some seconds which of the two to post in.

And thanks for the interest. I'll be following the process she outlines (the grammar-logic-rhetoric steps) so my progress will likely be excruciatingly slow

In the first edition of TWEM, Bauer recommended the Rutherford translation of Don Quixote, which I have in paperback. In the second edition, however, she changed her recommendation to the Grossman translation (which I have in ebook). The first TWEM edition was published in 2003 and the Grossman translation came out in 2005, so that makes some sense of the change.

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Reading List

Spoiler:

Between the two editions, the main change in the reading lists is that she added a science list. Also, she added Cormac McCarthy's The Road to the fiction list. There may be other changes I didn't notice.

Book page on the author's website

Spoiler:

She links to public domain versions of some of the books.