Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and author of many books, including Artists All (Penn State, 1991) and The Art of Translating Prose (Penn State, 1994). He is the translator of Rabelais“s Gargantua and Pantagruel (1990), winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize; Balzac“s Père Goriot (1994), and a forthcoming new version of Cervantes“s Don Quijote.
29 Ebooks von Burton Raffel
Voltaire Voltaire: Candide
In this new translation of Voltaire’s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel’s irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-yea …
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Olsen Alexandra H. Olsen: Poems and Prose from the Old English
In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel’s out-of-print classic, Poems from the Old English, Raffel and co-editor Alexandra H. Olsen place the oldest English writings in an …
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Chretien de Troyes Chretien de Troyes: Lancelot
In this outstanding new translation of Lancelot, Burton Raffel brings to English language readers the fourth of Chretien’s five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduc …
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Chretien de Troyes Chretien de Troyes: Perceval
One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chretien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur and the Round Table. Of Chretien’s five survi …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: King Lear
King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as …
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Boileau Nicolas Boileau: Selected Poems
French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Toda …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew
In one of Shakespeare’s bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure in the rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, determined to subdu …
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William Shakespeare: Hamlet
One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the first fully annotated version of Hamlet makes the play co …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human hea …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. Now the most extensively annotated version of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Othello
One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villai …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Richard III
Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England’s throne. Richa …
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William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream
From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespea …
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Chretien de Troyes: Yvain
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England …
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Burton Raffel: The Song of the Cid
From a legendary translator: a magnificent new rendering of Spain“s national epic Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain in this vibrant, rollicking new translation of The Song of the Cid, the only …
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Das Nibelungenlied
No poem in German literature is so well known and studied in Germany and Europe as the 800-year-old Das Nibelungenlied. In the English-speaking world, however, the poem has remained little known, lan …
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Shakespeare William Shakespeare: Tempest
Shakespeare’s valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on …
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Burton Raffel: Beowulf
Beowulf is one of the earliest existent poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. It is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting …
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