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 ...

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.

Earlier, three folk tales from Tulu were translated into English in A.K. Ramanujan’s Folktales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. “We have chosen ...

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.