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With The Greek Girl's Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbe Prevost's 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d'une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman's 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called "arguably the most valuable critical edition" of Prevost's novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition,...

With The Greek Girl's Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbe Prevost's 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d'une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman's 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called "arguably the most valuable critical edition" of Prevost's novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition,...

First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-Francois de Lezay-Marnesia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio.

Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnesia bought more than twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of the Ohio River from the Scioto Company, which promised French aristocrats a fertile, conflict-free refuge. But hostilities between the U.S. Army and the Native American tribes who...