BOOKS RECEIVED

Al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din. The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World. Translated by Elias Muhanna. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Pb. £11.99. ISBN 9780143107484. Alexievich, Svetlana. Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future. Translated by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780241270530. Alter, Robert, translator. Strong as Death is Love: ‘The Song of Songs’, ‘Ruth’, ‘Esther’, ‘Jonah’, ‘Daniel’. London: Norton, 2016. Pb. £10.99. ISBN 9780393352252. Andresen, Sophia de Mello Breyner. The Perfect Hour: Selected Poems. Translated by Colin Rorrison and Margaret Jull Costa. Cold Hub Press, 2015. Pb. £15. ISBN 9780473316525. Apter, Ronnie, and Mark Herman Thompson. Translating for Singing: The Theory, Art and Craft of Translating Lyrics. Bloomsbury, 2016. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 9781472571885. Aristophanes. ‘Frogs’ and Other Plays. Translated with an introduction and notes by Stephen Halliwell. Oxford University Press, 2016 (World’s Classics). Pb. £8.99. ISBN 9780192824097. Bacon, Anne. An Apology or Answer in Defence of the Church of England: Lady Anne Bacon’s Translation of John Jewel’s ‘Apologie Ecclesiae Anglicanae’. Edited by Patricia Demers. Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016 (MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations). Hb. £32.99. ISBN 9781781881262. Baer, Brian James. Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature. Bloomsbury, 2016. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 9781628927986. Bassani, Giorgio. Within the Walls. Translated by Jamie McKendrick. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780141192161.

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Books Received Baudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil (bilingual edition). Translated by Anthony Mortimer. Alma Classics, 2016. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9781847495747. Benjamin, Walter. The Storyteller: Short Stories. Translated and edited by Esther Leslie, Sam Dolbear, and Sebastian Truskolaski. Verso, 2016. Pb. £12.99. ISBN 9781784783044. Berk, Ihlan. The Book of Things. Translated by George Messo. Shearsman, 2016. Pb. £14.95. ISBN 9781848614628. Berk, Ihlan. New Selected Poems 1947–2008. Translated by George Messo. Shearsman, 2016. Pb. £12.95. ISBN 9781848614611. Boase-Beier, Jean. Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust: Translation, Style and the Reader. Bloomsbury, 2015. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 9781441178657. Büchner, Georg. Lenz. Translated by Michael Hamburger. Alma Classics, 2015. Pb. £8.99. ISBN 9781847494498. Bulgakov, Mikhail. A Dog’s Heart. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis. Alma Classics, 2016. Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9781847495686. Bulgakov, Mikhail. Diaries and Selected Letters. Translated by Roger Cockrell. Alma Classics, 2016. Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9781847496058. Burns, Barbara, editor. Wilhelm Meinhold: ‘The Amber Witch’; Translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016. Pb. £10.99. ISBN 9781781880951. Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Translated by Geoffrey Brock. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780241275955. Cerimonia, Daniela. Leopardi and Shelley: Discovery, Translation and Reception. Legenda, 2015. Hb. £75. ISBN 9781909662490. Cho, Heekyoung. Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formulation of Modern Korean Literature. Harvard University Press, 2016. Hb. £29.95. ISBN 9780674660045. Cross, Elsa. Beyond the Sea. Translated by Anamaría Crowe Serrano. Shearsman, 2016. Pb. £10.95. ISBN 9781848613997. D’Aurevilly, Jules Barbey. Diaboliques. Translated by Raymond N. Mackenzie. University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pb. £18.95. ISBN 9780816696901. Davison, Claire, Gerry Kimber, and Todd Martin, editors. Katherine Mansfield and Translation. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Hb. £70. ISBN 9781474400381. De Paor, Louis, editor. Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession (bilingual edition). Bloodaxe Books, 2016. Pb. £15. ISBN 9781780372990.

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Translation and Literature 25 (2016) Deane-Cox, Sharon. Retranslation: Translation, Literature and Re-interpretation. Bloomsbury, 2016 (first published 2014). Pb. £19.99. ISBN 9781441147349. Descartes, René. The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings. Translated with an introduction and notes by Michael Moriarty. Oxford University Press, 2015 (World’s Classics). Pb. £10.99. ISBN 9780199684137. Doloughan, Fiona J. English as a Literature in Translation. Bloomsbury, 2015. Hb. £66. ISBN 9781628925098. Dugdale, Sasha, David Constantine, and Helen Constantine, editors. MPT Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation. Bloodaxe, 2016. Pb. £15. ISBN 9781852242648. Eratosthenes and Hyginus. Constellation Myths, with Aratus’s ‘Phaenomena’. Translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Hard. Oxford University Press, 2015 (World’s Classics). Pb. £8.99. ISBN 9780198716983. Filippakopoulou, Maria. Transatlantic Poe: Eliot, Williams and Huxley, Readers of the French Poe. Peter Lang, 2015. Hb. £60. ISBN 9783034319669. Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education. Translated by Helen Constantine. Introduction and notes by Patrick Coleman. Oxford University Press, 2016 (World’s Classics). Pb. £10.99. ISBN 9780199686636. Furukawa, Hideo. Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins With Fukushima. Translated by Doug Slaymaker and Akiko Takenaka. Columbia University Press, 2016. Pb. £14. ISBN 9780231178693. Futoransky, Luisa. Nettles. Translated by Philippa Page. Shearsman, 2016. Pb. £9.95. ISBN 9781848614642. Gaunt, Simon, and Karen Pratt, translators. The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne. Oxford University Press, 2016 (World’s Classics). Pb. £8.99. ISBN 9780199655540. Ghermandi, Gabriella. Queen of Flowers and Pearls: A Novel. Translated by Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto. Indiana University Press, 2015. Pb. £15.99. ISBN 9780253015471. Gustafsson, Lars. Selected Poems. Translated by John Irons. Bloodaxe, 2015. Pb. £12. ISBN 9781852249977. Hasan Sijzi of Delhi. After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems. Translated by Rebecca Gould. Northwestern University Press, 2015. Pb. £20.50. ISBN 9780810132306.

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Books Received Heaney, Seamus. Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation. Faber, 2016. Hb. £14.99. ISBN 9780571327317. Higgins, Rita Ann. Tongulish. 9781780373034.

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Holton, Brian, translator. Staunin Ma Lane: Chinese Verse in Scots and English. Shearsman, 2016. Pb. £12.95. ISBN 9781848614666. Kascakova, Janka, and Gerri Kimber, editors. Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe. Palgrave, 2015. Hb. £55. ISBN 9781137429964. Kleinhenz, Christopher, and Andrea Dini, editors. Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s ‘Canzoniere’ and the Petrarchan Tradition. Modern Language Association, 2014. Pb. £24.50. ISBN 9781603291378. Kraus, Karl. The Last Days of Mankind. Translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms. Yale University Press, 2016. Hb. £25. ISBN 9780300207675. Lagerlöf, Selma. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson. Translated by Paul Norlen. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Pb. £14.99. ISBN 9780241206089. LaRocca, David, and Ricardo Miguel-Alonso, editors. A Power to Translate the World. New Essays on Emerson and International Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2016. Pb. £38. ISBN 9781611688290. Larrington, Carolyne, translator. The Poetic Edda. Oxford University Press, 2014 (World’s Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780199675340. Li Ang. The Lost Garden: A Novel. Translated by Sylvia Li-Chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt. Columbia University Press, 2015. Pb. £17.50. ISBN 9780231175555. Logue, Christopher. War Music: An Account of Homer’s ‘Iliad’. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016. Hb. £20. ISBN 9780374286491. Mallarmé, Stephane. Azure: Poems and Selections from the ‘Livre’. Translated by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez. Wesleyan University Press, 2016. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780819575807. Massardier-Kenney, Françoise, Brian James Baer, and Maria Tymoczko, editors. Translators Writing, Writing Translators. Kent State University Press, 2016. Hb. £60. ISBN 9781606352328. Maupassant, Guy de. The Necklace and Other Stories. Translated by Sandra Smith. Norton, 2015. Hb. £18.99. ISBN 2370000222282. Mérimée, Prosper. A Slight Misunderstanding. Translated by Douglas Parmée. Alma Classics, 2015. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9781847494436.

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Translation and Literature 25 (2016) Mugane, John M. The Story of Swahili. Ohio University Press, 2015. Pb. £20.99. ISBN 9780896802933. Newman, Karen, and Jane Tylus, editors. Early Modern Cultures of Translation. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Hb. £36. ISBN 9780812247404. Ng, Kim Chew. Slow Boat to China and Other Stories. Translated and edited by Carlos Rojas. Columbia University Press, 2016. Hb. £20. ISBN 9780231168120. Plutarch. Hellenistic Lives including ‘Alexander the Great’. Translated by Robin Waterfield with introduction and notes by Andrew Erskine. Oxford University Press, 2016 (World’s Classics). Pb. £12.99. ISBN 9780199664337. Polo, Marco. The Travels. Translated by Nigel Cliff. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780241253052. Pushkin, Alexander. Novels, Tales, Journeys. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Hb. £16.99. ISBN 9780241290361. Pushkin, Alexander. Russian Fairy Tales. Translated by Antony Wood. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Hb. £14.99. ISBN 9780241250020. Pym, Anthony. Translation Solutions for Many Languages: Histories of a Flawed Dream. Bloomsbury, 2016. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 9781474261111. Reynolds, Matthew. Translation: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2016. Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9780198712114. Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Translated with an introduction and notes by Robert Vilain. Oxford University Press, 2016 (World’s Classics). Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9780199646036. Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Others. Edited by John Pilling and Peter Robinson. Two Rivers Press, 2015. Pb. £12.99. ISBN 9781909747128. Robertson, Ritchie, and Michael White, editors. Fontane and Cultural Mediation: Translation and Reception in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Legenda, 2016. Hb. £60. ISBN 9781909662544. Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de. The 120 Days of Sodom. Translated by Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Pb. £12.99. ISBN 9780141394343. Sappho. Complete Poems and Fragments. Translated by Stanley Lombardo with an introduction by Pamela Gordon, expanded edition. Hackett, 2016. Pb. £10.62. ISBN 9781624664670.

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Books Received Simenon, Georges. Inspector Cadaver (Inspector Maigret No. 24). Translated by William Hobson. Penguin, 2015 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £6.99. ISBN 9780241188477. Simenon, Georges. Madame Maigret’s Friend (Inspector Maigret No. 34). Translated by Howard Curtis. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9780241240168. Simenon, Georges. Maigret’s First Case (Inspector Maigret No. 30). Translated by Ros Schwartz. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9780241206386. Simenon, Georges. Maigret’s Memoirs (Inspector Maigret No. 11). Translated by Howard Clark. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9780241240175. Simenon, Georges. The Snow was Dirty. Translated by Howard Curtis. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Modern Classics). Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9780241258569. Sophocles. ‘Oedipus the King’ and Other Tragedies: ‘Oedipus the King’, ‘Aias’, ‘Philoctetes’, ‘Oedipus at Colonus’. Translated with an introduction and notes by Oliver Taplin. Oxford University Press, 2016 (World’s Classics). Pb. £8.99. ISBN 9780192806857. Squires, Geoffrey, editor and translator. My News for You: Irish Poetry 600–1200. Shearsman, 2015. Pb. £12.95. ISBN 9781848614338. Stavans, Ilan, editor and translator. Lazarillo de Tormes. Norton, 2016. Pb. £9.80. ISBN 9780393938050. Stead, Henry. A Cockney Catullus: The Reception of Catullus in Romantic Britain. Oxford University Press, 2015 (Classical Presences). Hb. £65. ISBN 9780198744887. Storm, Theodor. Immensee and Other Stories. Translated by R. Taylor, B. Q. Morgan, and F. M. Voigt. Alma Classics, 2015. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 9781847494597. Tsvetaeva, Marina. Milestones. Translated by Christopher Whyte. Shearsman, 2015. Pb. £9.95. ISBN 9781848614161. Van der Meersch, Maxence. Invasion 14. Translated by W. Brian Newsome. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. Pb. £21.99. ISBN 9780773547544. Voltaire. Treatise on Toleration. Translated by Desmond M. Clarke. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Pb. £8.99. ISBN 9780241236628. Wang, Xiulu. Bridging the Personal and the Political: Literary Translation in Contemporary China. Peter Lang, 2016. Pb. £25. ISBN 9783034320085.

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Translation and Literature 25 (2016) Whittington, Leah. Renaissance Suppliants: Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation. Oxford University Press, 2016 (Classical Presences). Hb. £55. ISBN 9780198754442. Wilkinson, Toby, editor and translator. Writings from Ancient Egypt. Penguin, 2016 (Penguin Classics). Pb. £10.99. ISBN 9780141395951. Yunte Huang, editor. The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century. Norton, 2015. Pb. £26. ISBN 9780393239485. Zola,

Emile. Earth. Translated by Brian Nelson and Julie Rose. Oxford University Press, 2015 (World’s Classics). Pb. £10.99. ISBN 9780199677870.

Zola, Emile. Money. Translated by André Naffis-Sahely. Alma Classics, 2016. Pb. £7.99. ISBN 9781847495792.

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