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Adelheit von Rastenberg: An English Translation
Purporting to chronicle historical events, Eleonore Thon's play reveals more about the changing roles of women at the dawn of the Industrial Age than it does about knightly conduct in...
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Author(s): Elenore Thon
Translator(s): George F. Peters
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Adelheit von Rastenberg: The Original German Text
Purporting to chronicle historical events, Eleonore Thon's play reveals more about the changing roles of women at the dawn of the Industrial Age than it does about knightly conduct in...
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Author(s): Elenore Thon
Editor(s): Karin A. Wurst
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An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry
In English Translation, with Italian Text
"An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry will give you many hours of pleasure." Arts Spectrum "This dual-language anthology comes as a most welcome contribution to a still limited corpus...
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Editor(s): Ned Condini
Translator(s): Ned Condini
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An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry from Spain
In English Translation, with Original Text
"This volume is a valuable resource not only for courses in Spanish and world literature but for the nonacademic reader as well. It is truly a treasure trove of significant...
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Editor(s): Anna-Marie Aldaz
Translator(s): Anna-Marie Aldaz, W. Robert Walker
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An Anthology of Spanish American Modernismo
In English Translation, with Spanish Text
"I was struck by how moving some of the translations are. These are among the very best translations of poetry from Spanish to English. This volume will be a wonderful...
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Editor(s): Kelly Washbourne
Translator(s): Kelly Washbourne with Sergio Waisman
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Beauty and Love
The girl Beauty and the boy Love are betrothed to each other as children. But Beauty violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Love...
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Author(s): Seyh Galip
Translator(s): Victoria Rowe Holbrook
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Claire d'Albe: An English Translation
Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and...
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Author(s): Sophie Cottin
Translator(s): Margaret Cohen
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Claire d'Albe: The Original French Text
Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and...
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Author(s): Sophie Cottin
Editor(s): Margaret Cohen
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Confessions of a Poisoner, Written by Herself
"Whitinger and Spokeine’s work is a valuable contribution to the project of bringing lesser-known works to the attention of students and scholars." Sarah V. Eldridge, MLR "For students in German,...
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Translator(s): Raleigh Whitinger, Diana Spokiene
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Dämmerung: Schauspiel in fünf Akten
Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor...
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Author(s): Elsa Bernstein
Editor(s): Susanne Kord
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Descent
Descent, a novella published in 1920, is set against the background of Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine during the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917,...
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Author(s): Dovid Bergelson
Translator(s): Joseph Sherman
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"El encaje roto" y otros cuentos
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Editor(s): Joyce Tolliver
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Essential Encounters
Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Translator(s): Cheryl Toman
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Gabriel: An English Translation
"Sand’s [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law . . . [is] an excellent addition...
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Author(s): George Sand
Translator(s): Kathleen Robin Hart, Paul Fenouillet
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Gabriel: The Original French Text
"Sand’s [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law . . . [is] an excellent addition...
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Author(s): George Sand
Editor(s): Kathleen Robin Hart
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Histoire d'Ernestine
Set in prerevolutionary France, Histoire d'Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches...
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Author(s): Marie Riccoboni
Editor(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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Hüsn ü Aşk
The girl Hüsn and the boy Aşk are betrothed to each other as children. But Hüsn violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Aşk...
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Author(s): Seyh Galip
Editor(s): Victoria Rowe Holbrook
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Letters from a Peruvian Woman
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Letters from a Peruvian Woman appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its...
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Author(s): Françoise de Graffigny
Translator(s): David Kornacker
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Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend was composed as a...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Translator(s): Philip Stewart, Jean Vaché
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Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie was composed as a...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Editor(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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Lettres d'une Péruvienne
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Lettres d'une Péruvienne appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publi cation...
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Author(s): Françoise de Graffigny
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Nancy K. Miller
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Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Editor(s): Christopher Rivers
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Translator(s): Christopher Rivers
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Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
Translator(s): Melanie Hawthorne
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Monsieur Vénus: Roman matérialiste
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
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Nigilistka
First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nigilistka is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who...
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Author(s): Sofya Kovalevskaya
Editor(s): Natasha Kolchevska
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Nihilist Girl
First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat...
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Author(s): Sofya Kovalevskaya
Translator(s): Natasha Kolchevska with Mary Zirin
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Opgang
Opgang, a novella published in 1920, is set against the background of Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine during the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917,...
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Author(s): Dovid Bergelson
Editor(s): Joseph Sherman
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Ourika: An English Translation
John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Translator(s): John Fowles
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Ourika: The Original French Text
Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Margaret Waller
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"Personality Disorders" and Other Stories
(English translation)
"Millás is an important Spanish writer, and the stories are fun and thought-provoking. The translations are solid and retain the humor, irony, and satirical thrust of the original texts." Edward...
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Author(s): Juan José Millás
Translator(s): Gregory B. Kaplan
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Rencontres essentielles
Published in 1969, Rencontres essentielles is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Editor(s): Cheryl Toman
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Sarah
An English Translation
"This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Translator(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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Sarah
The Original French Text
"This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Editor(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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"The Signorina" and Other Stories
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death...
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Author(s): Anna Banti
Translator(s): Martha King, Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
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"La signorina" e altri racconti
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death...
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Author(s): Anna Banti
Editor(s): Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
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The Story of Ernestine
Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting...
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Author(s): Marie Riccoboni
Translator(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville
The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely...
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Author(s): François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, Charles Perrault
Editor(s): Joan DeJean
Translator(s): Steven Rendall
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Three Women
"Isabelle de Charrière is rightly prominent in the series and Trois femmes is an important work from the Revolutionary decade which will stimulate much debate in the classroom." Modern Language...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Translator(s): Emma Rooksby
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"Torn Lace" and Other Stories
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Translator(s): Maria Cristina Urruela
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"Trastornos de carácter" y otros cuentos
(Spanish text)
The stories of Juan José Millás, who began writing in the 1970s, depart from both the socially engaged, traditional realism and the linguistic experimentation of post-Francoist Spain. They are...
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Author(s): Juan José Millás
Editor(s): Pepa Anastasio
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Trois femmes
"Isabelle de Charriè is rightly prominent in the series and Trois femmes is an important work from the Revolutionary decade which will stimulate much debate in the classroom." Modern Language...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Editor(s): Emma Rooksby
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Twilight: A Drama in Five Acts
Susanne Kord, the editor and translator of Twilight, discusses the reception of Bernstein's works--at first enthusiastic, then increasingly sexist--and the theme, in Twilight, of the culturally sanctioned oppression of women.
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Author(s): Elsa Bernstein
Translator(s): Susanne Kord
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An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry
In English Translation, with Urdu Text
Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Britain, Urdu has one of the richest literatures of all south...
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Editor(s): M.A.R. Habib
Translator(s): M.A.R. Habib
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Lettera alla madre
"Edith Bruck's extraordinarily incisive memoir of her life in wartime Auschwitz is one of the most impressive works of its kind that I've seen in the last five or six...
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Author(s): Edith Bruck
Editor(s): Gabriella Romani
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Letter to My Mother
"Edith Bruck's extraordinarily incisive memoir of her life in wartime Auschwitz is one of the most impressive works of its kind that I've seen in the last five or six...
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Author(s): Edith Bruck
Translator(s): Brenda Webster with Gabriella Romani
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