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Romantic Fairy Tales
Translated and Edited with an
Introduction by Carol Tully
This enchanting and disturbing collection
vividly illustrates the development of
German Romanticism through four key
“literary fairy tales”: Goethe’s The Fairy Tale
(1795), Tieck’s Eckbert the Fair (1797),
Fouqué’s Undine (1811), and Brentano’s
The Tale of Honest Casper and FairAnnie
(1817).
192 pp. 978-0-14-044732-3 $14.00
See Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Russian Short Stories from
Pushkin to Buida
Edited with an Introduction by
Robert Chandler
This original anthology of short stories
covers two centuries of Russian literary
tradition, from the early nineteenth
century to the collapse of the Soviet
Union and beyond, and includes not
only well-known classics but also modern
masterpieces—many of them previously
censored.
656 pp. 978-0-14-044846-7 $17.00
Seven Viking Romances
Translated with an Introduction by
Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards
Incorporating local myths and legends,
as well as sources from Homer to French
romances, these medieval stories feature
famous kings, difficult gods, and great
adventures.
304 pp. 978-0-14-044474-2 $13.95
Sidney’s ‘The Defence of Poesy’
and Selected Renaissance
Literary Criticism
Introduction and Notes by Gavin Alexander
From the English Renaissance came a
number of works that sought to define
and defend the role of literature in society
and to comment on the craft of writing.
This collection includes Sir Philip Sidney’s
“The Defence of Poesy” and George
Puttenham’s “The Art of English Poesy,”
as well as works by George Gascoigne,
Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, and others.
544 pp. 978-0-14-143938-9 $17.00
Speaking of ´Siva
Translated with an Introduction by
A. K. Ramanujan
This volume contains a collection of
vacanas (free-verse lyrics) centering on
the Hindu god S´ iva, written by four saints
of the great bhakti protest movement of
the tenth century a.d.: Basvanna, Devara
Dasimayya, Mahaadeviyakka, and Allama
Prabhu.
208 pp . 978-0-14-044270-0 $15.00
Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung
(The Highest Order of Cultivation and
On the Practice of the Mean)
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Andrew Plaks
Preface by Xinzhong Yao
Ta Hsüeh (Daxue) and Chung Yung
(Zhongyong) are two of the central texts
of early Chinese thought, encapsulating
Confucian philosophy on the Way of
moral cultivation and spiritual attainment.
The texts focus on the connection
between internal self-cultivation and the
external realization of one’s moral core
in the fulfillment of the practical aims of
Confucian life.
176 pp. 978-0-14-044784-2 $14.00
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