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...
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...