7699 results for '"William Belton (Translator)'

French and English (speaking) scholars discuss linguistic, philosophical, and historical aspects of translating religious works, not only into another language, but also into visual art. Among the...

Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the...

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 One of The New Yorker's Best Books We've Read in 2024 "A bright new voice in fiction…A genuine young talent, one who deftly palpates the dark areas of...

From Piney Folklore to Legendary Figures of South Jersey's PastAuthor William Lewis presents fascinating tales, revealing legends and beloved lore from the heart of Southern New Jersey.

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring...

In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and...

A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of...

The first biography of a great American composer of the cinema age John Williams is one of the most important film composers of all time, having almost singlehandedly revived the Hollywood symphonic...

"This is a translation of 11 traditional texts of Iranian Islam from the 12th century to the present, with 100 pages of introduction by Professor Corbin. . . . Reading this book is an adventure in a...

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the...

Together these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the...

Gappian wrote his Roman History in the second century AD as a series of books arranged geographically to chronicle the rise of the Roman empire. His Iberike, of which this is the first translation...

This book is a collection of twelve important but little-read orations of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, providing an English translation for each with a thorough introduction and copious notes...

In 26 stunning spreads, black-and-white photos of Weimaraner dogs forming the letters of the alphabet are accompanied by color portraits of Fay Ray, Bettina, and other four-legged friends...

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William...

The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) achieved global fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this first English-language biography, Rüdiger Görner depicts the...

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane,...

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness...

Is poetry lost in translation, or is it perhaps the other way around? Is it found? Gained? Won? What happens when a poet decides to give his favorite Russian poems a new life in English? Are the new...

Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature"The most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)." -Ezra Pound...