In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, Northwestern World Classics will also reintroduce to a new generation -lost classics, - such as Ivan Shcheglov's 1896 The Dacha Husband (Dachnyi muzh). Despite being considered the most interesting writer of the late 1800s by no less a writer than his onetime collaborator Anton Chekhov, Ivan Shcheglov is largely forgotten in the West. In the able hands of Michael Katz, acclaimed translator of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy, Shcheglov's strikingly modern style and biting satire come alive for today's...
In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, Northwestern World Classics will also reintroduce to a new generation -lost classics, -...
It is most fitting that Northwestern University Press, long a leading publisher of Russian literature in translation, launches the Northwestern World Classics series with a new translation of Russia's greatest poet. Included are many famous poems well known to, and often memorized by, every educated Russian, as well as lighter, more occasional pieces.
Renowned translator James Falen s collection of 167 of Pushkin s lyrics is arranged chronologically, beginning with verse written in the poet s teenage years Pushkin published his first poem at fifteen and was widely revered by his later...
It is most fitting that Northwestern University Press, long a leading publisher of Russian literature in translation, launches the Northwestern Wor...
"The Divine Comedy" marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular Italian as a literary language and Dante s book is still considered Italy s greatest literary achievement. Its highly idiomatic verse, however, has long bedeviled English-language translators. Burton Raffel, whose translation of" Don Quixote" is acclaimed for making Cervantes more accessible to the modern generation, in this new translation for Northwestern World Classics, shows exciting new directions, preserving both the lyricism of the original and its incisive meaning. First-time readers and longtime fans of the...
"The Divine Comedy" marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular Italian as a literary language and Dante s book is still considered Italy s ...
With his new edition of The Sylph (Northwestern, 2007), Jonathan David Gross recovered the work of novelist and biopic subject Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. With Belmour, Gross introduces the modern audience to the only novel of English sculptress Anne Damer. Belmour chronicles the tangled romances of a group of eighteenth-century English aristocrats. The plot centers on Lord Belmour's pursuit of the lovely and slightly mysterious Emily Melville. The c arismatic Belmour, a man of great feeling and quick perception, goes to great lengths to gain the affection of...
With his new edition of The Sylph (Northwestern, 2007), Jonathan David Gross recovered the work of novelist and biopic subject Georgiana, Duche...
Originally published as "The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, "the fourteen stories in "Romance "showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal s considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising warmth, and his hard-edged, fast-paced style. In the story "Romance," a plumber s apprentice and a gypsy girl reach toward a tentative connection across the chasm that separates their worlds. Another unlikely love story, "World Cafeteria," features a romance between a young man whose girlfriend has just committed suicide and a bride whose husband lands in jail on their wedding night.
The tone...
Originally published as "The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, "the fourteen stories in "Romance "showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal s considerable gifts...
