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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Translated with an Introduction by
P. W. K. Stone
One of the most notorious novels of
all time, this eighteenth-century work
describes the intrigues of a depraved pair
of aristocrats plotting the seduction of a
young convent girl.
400 pp. 978-0-14-044116-1 $11.00
MadaMe de laFayette
1634 – 1693, French
The Princesse de Clèves
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Robin Buss
This romance about a woman’s dangerous
but platonic liaison is one of the first
feminist novels and a precursor to the
psychological realism of Proust.
192 pp. 978-0-14-044587-9 $12.00
jean de la Fontaine
1621 – 1695, French
Selected Fables
Translated by James Michie
Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson
Jean de La Fontaine popularized some of
our most beloved tales, transforming the
world’s great fables into charming works
of astonishing originality, wit, and verve.
James Michie’s earthy translations capture
the friendly brio, nimble comedy, and
jaunty wisdom of the original.
304 pp. 978-0-14-045524-3 $14.00
selMa lagerlöF
1858 – 1940, swedish
nobel Prize Winner
The Saga of Gösta Berling
Translated by Paul Norlen
Introduction by George C. Schoolfield
This sweeping epic by the first woman to
win the Nobel Prize in Literature has been
called a Swedish Gone with the Wind and
is the basis for the 1924 silent film of the
same name that launched Greta Garbo
into stardom.
384 pp. 978-0-14-310590-9 $16.00
“every book of this great storyteller keeps
on bringing us astonishing examples of her
art. . . . no one in europe can tell tales so
unforgettably.” —h e r m a n n hesse
selMa lagerlöF
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) was born and raised in the Swedish province of
Värmland. She was teaching at a girls school in Lanskrona when she was awarded
a literary prize for what would become five chapters of The Saga of Gösta Berling
(1891). Becoming a full-time writer after 1895 allowed her to travel to Italy and
the Near East, where she gathered material for her novels. In 1909 she became the
first woman—and first Swedish author—to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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