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by William Egginton

  • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
  • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
  • Release date: 07-12-16
  • Language: English

In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures.

That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a best seller, though. He invented a way of writing. This story is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction – and how fiction changed the world.

The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes’ life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work and how his work – especially Don Quixote – radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and science and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.

Four hundred years after Cervantes’ death, William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.

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Author

William Egginton

Language

English

Length

8 hrs and 14 mins

Narrated by

Michael Butler Murray

Release date

07-12-16

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