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An English rendering of Jerome Doucet's fantastic little stories has just appeared in print in this country in a form which calls forth special mention even where the literary work of the editor ...
Never before published in English, the first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales reveals an unsanitized version of the stories that have been told at bedtime for more than 200 years.
All of us carry around inside us the story of our lives, a covert world of all the things we’ve thought and seen and done. Our experiences, which survive so vividly inside us, are held hostag… ...
Nevertheless, he rendered 25 such folk tales into English and anthologised them into an e-book for Kindle, which has received a five-star reviews. Titled Bed-time Stories for Grown-ups: ...
There have been several major English translations of Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century classic. Motoko Rich, The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief, discusses how she approached them.
Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, ... "She's extreme, and she laughs at herself," explains Marion Turner, an English professor at Oxford University.