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David Karashima

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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David Karashima

David Karashima is a prize-winning novelist and the author of many translations of contemporary Japanese fiction into English, including works by Hitomi Kanehara, Taichi Yamada, Yasutaka Tsutsui and Hisaki Matsuura.

Gregory Norminton

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Gregory Norminton

Writer, environmentalist and occasional translator Gregory Norminton was born in Berkshire in 1976. He has published four novels (including the acclaimed Arts & Wonders and Serious Things), one collection of short stories and a book of aphorism. The Ghost Who Bled, a second collection of stories, will be published by Comma Press in 2014. Gregory Norminton teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and lives in Derbyshire with his wife Emma. Visit his website www.gregorynorminton.co.uk

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Belle & Sébastien: The Child of the Mountains

By Cecile Aubry

First published in 1965 to coincide with the internationally successful television series of the same name, Belle and Sébastien is a heart-warming story of camaraderie, adventure and freedom. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Helen Stephens and contains extra material for young readers.

The Little Prince

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

First published in 1943 and featuring the author’s own watercolour illustrations, The Little Prince has since become a classic philosophical fable for young and old, as well as a global publishing phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide and being translated into dozens of languages….

Richard N. Coe

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Richard N. Coe

Richard N. Coe (1923–87) taught French and Comparative Literature at various universities in the UK and Australia, and was the author of books on Ionesco, Beckett and Genet. His greatest achievement as a translator was the monumental Life of Rossini by Stendhal.

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The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio

By Stendhal

The ‘Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio’- Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle was jobless, soon destined to become a refugee and in desperate need of money. His most abiding pass…

The Life of Rossini

By Stendhal

Besides being a fascinating and penetrating account of the Italian composer’s most creative years, and of contemporary musical events and opinions, this work is one of the finest items in the Stendhalian literary canon. Details of Rossini’s early life are followed by penetrating discussions of the o…

Rome, Naples and Florence

By Stendhal

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon’s armies, and he continued to travel and to live in Italy until a few months before his death. Some of his visits lasted only a few weeks, others continued for ye…

April Fitzlyon

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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April Fitzlyon

April Fitzlyon was a scholar and translator from French and Russian, and the author of several musical biographies.

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The Woman in the Case and Other Stories

By Anton Chekhov

This collection of lesser-known early short fiction – ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic tales – demonstrates Anton Chekhov’s mastery of the genre, with stories about marital infidelity, betrayal, deception and love in its various forms. Although varying in tone…

Three Novellas: The Devil, Family Happiness and A Landowner’s Morning

By Leo Tolstoy

In some ways comparable to the controversial Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil shows Tolstoy at his most salacious, and addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience. Also included in this volume is Family Happiness, one of Tolstoy’s earliest works, an entertaining and cynica…

The Ladies’ Paradise

By Émile Zola

Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society − obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification − The Ladies’ Paradise vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of Denise, a young shopgirl from the…

Stephen Spender

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Stephen Spender

As well as being a prolific poet, novelist and essayist, Stephen Spender (1909–95) was an accomplished translator of poetry and plays.

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The Lulu Plays

By Frank Wedekind

Two of Wedekind’s most seminal plays, Earth-Spirit and Pandora’s Box both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu, who embodies both animal sensuality and waif-like innocence, as she escapes a life on the streets, receives a society education, marries, takes on various lovers, becomes a dance…

Stephen Parkin

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Stephen Parkin

Stephen Parkin is Curator of Italian Studies at the British Library with responsibility for the Library’s early printed Italian collections (1501–1850). His published translations include Giuseppe Garibaldi’s My Life (2004), Edmondo De Amicis’s Constantinople (2005) and Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa’s Childhood Memories (2013). He has also published widely on the history of bibliography and book collecting.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

By Carlo Collodi

The story of a naughty wooden puppet who has a penchant for lying and dreams of becoming a real boy, The Adventures of Pinocchio has entered our collective imagination and fascinated generations of young and adult readers since its first publication in 1883. Part fable, part coming-of-age novel, par…

Two Books by Edmondo de Amicis

By Edmondo de Amicis

Discover a great Italian author, Edmondo de Amicis who at his time was considered one of the greatest travel writers. Constantinople and Memories of London are a great example of his writing ability and they are considered classics of travel writing Constantinople Described by Orhan Pamuk as ‘the be…

Memories of London

By Edmondo de Amicis

As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age. Originally conceived as a series of news…

Constantinople

By Edmondo de Amicis

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbour – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining historical…

Ignat Avsey

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Ignat Avsey

Ignat Avsey’s translations include Dostoevsky’s The Village of Stepanchikovo, The Karamazov Brothers and Humiliated and Insulted, as well as Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Leonardo and Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s I Was Jack Mortimer.

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Humiliated and Insulted

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

This new translation of Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky catches the verve and tumult of the original, which – in concept and execution – affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author. Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not “at all inferior to the other great m…

The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky, who wrote that in the character of Prince Myshkin he hoped to portray a “wholly virtuous man”, shows the workings of the human mind and our relationships with others in all their complex and contradictory nature. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-…

Leonardo da Vinci

By Dmitry Merezhkovsky

An unjustly forgotten masterpiece of Russian literature that inspired one of Freud’s most important essays, Leonardo da Vinci also offers an illuminating snapshot of the society of the period – beset with intrigue and religious and social tension – and a host of memorable historical figures such as…

Cathy Porter

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Cathy Porter

Cathy Porter is the translator of more than thirty books and works for the stage, including plays by Gorky and the Czech writer Karel Čapek. She has published biographies of the Russian revolutionaries Alexandra Kollontai and Larissa Reisner, as well as books about women terrorists of the 1860s, Russia’s 1905 revolution and the Battle of Moscow.

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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy

After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Sofia Behrs kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Sofia’s life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In the backgroun…

Alessandro Gallenzi

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Alessandro Gallenzi

Alessandro Gallenzi is the founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and Alma Classics, and the successor of John Calder at the helm of Calder Publications. As well as being a literary publisher with over fifteen years of experience, he is a prize-winning translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist. His collection of poetry, Modern Bestiary – Ars Poetastrica, was published in 2005 to critical acclaim. His satirical literary novel, Bestseller, was published in 2010, followed by InterRail in 2012 and The Tower in 2014. His verse translation of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock won the Premio Biblioteca di Monselice special award in 2010. His articles have appeared in many papers and journals, including The Times, The Scotsman and The London Magazine.

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Written in Water: John Keats’s Final Journey

The Tower

Interrail

Bestseller

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The Adventures of Pipì the Pink Monkey

By Carlo Collodi

Collodi wrote this story immediately after Pinocchio, and the little monkey’s adventures present clear similarities, both in terms of themes and characters, with his more celebrated masterpiece. This rediscovered gem of Italian literature, beautifully illustrated by Axel Scheffler and preserving all…

Frances Lobb

By alex on November 21, 2016 in

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Frances Lobb

Frances Lobb (1917–2013) was an English novelist, poet and translator. Her translations include works by Dino Buzzati, Michael Ende and Louise Labé.

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