A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embrac... more

Captain J ger is the well-meaning but temperamental head of a rural family living in straitened circ... more

How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live i... more

Carmen (1845) by Prosper M rim e is the original novella that inspired the classic opera by Bizet. T... more

Set in the late twentieth century, Hanoi Blues explores the political fear and struggle for survival... more

"The notes to this English edition are based on those by Henri Godard, originally published in Roman... more

Having led Egypt to glorious prosperity, 50-year-old Ramses should be able to rest. His hard-won pea... more

Saga about ancient Egypt & the powerful struggle between Ramses & his enemies.... more

The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne’s original stor... more

The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne’s original stor... more

Essentially, Doctor Pascal s only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of ... more

"Wasabi for Breakfast" reintroduces best-selling Japanese author Foumiko Kometani’s uniquely humorou... more

Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. This vol... more

This wry take on Kafka’s novel The Trial revolves around its narrator’s attempts to petition success... more

Journal. Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the...... more

Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with t... more

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the strugg... more

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the strugg... more

Octavio Paz called the late Roberto Juarroz, one of Latin America’s most distinguished contemporary ... more

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixtee... more

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth into the... more

Laureate Mary Crow has chosen the finest of Orozco’s poems for this long-awaited Spanish-English bilingual collection...... more

Cicero s speech delivered in the mid 50s BC in defense of Gaius Rabirius Postumus was the last of a ... more

"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transfor... more

First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a care... more

. --from Canto I Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so...... more

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically accl... more

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically accl... more

This is a translation of the second (1858) edition of Berlioz s landmark treatise by Mary Cowden Clarke, daughter of...... more

One of the most influential thinkers of the Western civilization, a man who profoundly shaped the mi... more

Professor Vinokur (1896-1947) discusses each of the stages in the development of Russian from its Co... more

A stunning collection of poems about the sea by this Nobel Prize winning Spanish poet.... more

Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Breton’s second collection of critical... more

Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, pass... more

What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds th... more

These words borrowed from the well-known medical doctor Parch Adams, demonstrate the revolutionary s... more

The ninja adventures continue with Naruto s son, Boruto Naruto was a young shinobi with an incorrigi... more

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and west... more

woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard s translations are lean, incisive, direct--the...... more

Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic Economic growth--and the hope of... more

The epic ninja adventure that became a global phenomenon Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigi... more

This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native o... more

This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native o... more

This book completes Wolfgang Dietrich’s path-breaking trilogy of the Many Peaces; the foundation of ... more

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of D... more

The epic ninja adventure that became a global phenomenon Naruto is a ninja-in-training whose wild an... more

In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France s National Front and the Austrian Free... more

The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known... more

After years of training and adventure, Goku has become Earth s ultimate warrior. And his son, Gohan,... more

Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He s got a wild sense of humor, b... more

Akira Toriyama s original, bestselling series now in a full-color version After his epic battle with... more

"Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out." As Charles de Gaull... more

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of D... more

A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to today Europe and the Islamic Wo... more

For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current c... more

Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’i... more

Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, and has a special place in the Arab Islamic w... more