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Gradient Books publishes progressively translated classics that help you move from English into the original language naturally, page by page.Our launch translation of the beloved Spanish classic Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes will be released shortly!

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Gradient Books is a publishing project built around a simple idea: instead of throwing readers straight into a fully foreign text, we help them cross the bridge gradually. Our progressive translation format begins with more support in English and then slowly increases the proportion of the original language over the course of the book. The result is a reading experience that feels less like homework and more like discovering that, somewhere along the way, you actually learned to read the real thing.Our first title is Don Quixote, presented in a form that helps readers move from English into Cervantes’ Spanish over the course of the book. It is an invitation both to language learning and literary adventure: a chance to encounter one of the foundational novels of world literature not merely as a translated artifact, but as a living work in its native tongue.By the final chapter, you'll be reading entirely in the original language!

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Part I, Chapter VIII
“Look, your worship,” said Sancho; “what we see there are not gigantes but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the viento make the millstone go.”“It is easy to see,” replied Don Quixote, “that thou art not used to this business of aventuras; those are gigantes; and if thou art afraid, away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat.”Part 1, Chapter XI
“Happy the edad, happy the tiempo, to which the antiguos gave the nombre of dorada, not because in that fortunate edad the oro so coveted in this our hierro one was gained without trabajo, but because they that lived in it knew not the dos palabras “mine” and “thine”! In that blessed edad all cosas were in común; to win the daily alimento no labor was required of any save to stretch forth his mano and gather it from the sturdy robles that stood generously inviting him with their sweet ripe fruto."

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