James Hogarth
The Toilers of the Sea James Hogarth Graham Robb Victor Hugo Written by Victor Hugo, Translated by James Hogarth, Introduction by Graham Robb [... more]
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Charles the Bold: Translated By Wayne Grady
Coming of Age in 1960's/70's Quebec: In this first volume we follow Charles from birth in 1966 through elementary school. His mother dies when is very young and his father is an alcoholic who doesn't care for his son. He's both neglectful and abusive. We [... more]
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Paul Schmidt
Afterword by Honor Moore, Translated by Paul Schmidt, Introduction by Catherine Ciepiela A master anthology of Russia's most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, ... [... more]
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Richard Gere
Read by Richard Gere, Translated by Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa To listen to an audio excerpt online in MP3 format click here. In this classic scripture of Tibetan Buddhism-traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain ... [... more]
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Joseph Joubert
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true ... [... more]
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Lazer Lederhendler
Nicolas Dickner Lazer Lederhendler Nikolski Written by Nicolas Dickner, Translated by Lazer Lederhendler [... more]
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C.P. Cavafy
An extraordinary literary event. The collected works-including the previously unpublished final poems-of the greatest modern Greek poet, translated by the renowned critic, classicist, and award-winning author of The Lost, and published ... [... more]
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Catherine Ciepiela
Afterword by Honor Moore, Translated by Paul Schmidt, Introduction by Catherine Ciepiela A master anthology of Russia's most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, ... [... more]
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Sun Tzu: Art of War
One of the most accurate translated Sun Tzu: Ralph Sawyer's rendering published in 1994 is incredibly accurate. High on readability as well. However, typographical errors are present. Though they are not damaging to the understanding of Sun Tzu, one has [... more]
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The Complete Art Of War: Sun Tzu/sun Pin
suffering: The text does not remotely fill the entire page to lengthen the book and suggest a happier price. Sun Pin's addition is severely garbled because the original text was damaged and it's contadictory. The most likely reason that Sun Pin's methods [... more]
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The Odyssey of Homer: Translated by T.E. Lawrence
An Oustanding Translation: I hesitated in buying this translation of the Odyssey having grown up with verse translations, most notably that of Fitzgerald. A prose translation somehow put me off; it seemed like the very meaning of Homer's words would be [... more]
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The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Translated by the ...
Some nice imagery but elusive and vague: Could it be the translation that makes these poems difficult to follow? I really wanted to like them, but the impression I have is of some brilliant imagery in otherwise meandering poems. Maybe I needed to [... more]
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