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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Michael Hulse
Based partly on Goethe’s unrequited
love for Charlotte Buff, this novel of
pathological sensibility strikes a powerful
blow against Enlightenment rationalism.
144 pp. 978-0-14-044503-9 $10.95
See Romantic Fairy Tales.
vinCent van gogh
1853 – 1890, Dutch
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Edited and Selected with an Introduction
by Ronald de Leeuw and Translated by
Arnold Pomerans
Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club
Translation Prize
This volume reinstates passages omitted
from early editions of van Gogh’s letters
and includes, whenever possible, the
wonderful pen-and-ink sketches he added
to his written messages.
560 pp. 978-0-14-044674-6 $16.00
nikolai gogol
1809 – 1852, Russian
Dead Souls
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Robert A. Maguire
The hero of this satiric masterpiece is
Gogol’s most beguiling and devilish
creation, a man who buys dead serfs.
Gogol’s attempts to continue the story in
two more books obsessed him, eventually
driving him to madness and death.
512 pp. 978-0-14-044807-8 $14.00
The Diary of a Madman,
The Government Inspector, and
Selected Stories
Introduction by Robert A. Maguire
Translated by Ronald Wilks
Nikolai Gogol greatly influenced Russian
literature with his powerful depictions of
a society dominated by petty bureaucracy
and base corruption. Ranging from comic
to tragic, this volume includes both his
most admired short fiction and his most
famous drama.
368 pp. 978-0-14-044907-5 $12.00
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