The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Second Edition
Provides a compilation of more than four thousand quotations expressed by renowned figures of the twentieth century
John Michael Cohen Books
John Michael Cohen was a prolific translator of European literature into English. He launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His work in translation garnered praise from prominent literary figures. Cohen played an instrumental role in the Latin American Boom of the 1960s by translating works by major authors and bringing them to the attention of English-speaking readers. In addition to his extensive translation and editorial work, he also authored works of literary criticism and biography.
John Cohen’s portraiture of two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers John Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the American folk revival's most authentic and respected musical groups. In the 1960s he made a series of photographs of the last years of Woody Guthrie's life, and early portraits of Bob Dylan on his arrival in New York, depicting two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers. In the process, Cohen portrayed one of the great moments of American folk music history. The book contains other images from the 1960s, including the music scenes at Washington Square and on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, images of Jerry Garcia and the musicians in San Francisco's Family Dog, as well as the psychedelic Sky River Rock festival. In 1970, Dylan requested Cohen make another set of color photographs of him with a camera that could take photographs from a block away. He was portrayed walking unrecognized on the streets of the city and at a farm in upstate New York. The photographs were used in Dylan's album Self Portrait.
The Penguin dictionary of quotations
- 672 pages
- 24 hours of reading
This volume of memorable quotations, old and new, will be useful for competition entries and crosswords, speeches or letters or purely to dip into for entertainment.
This is a companion and source book for the reader, the writer, the after-dinner speaker, the crossword puzzle solver and the browser. The dictionary can be used in two ways: by turning up key words such as life, god, love or money or by making direct use of the first section where authors, and their memorable statements, are listed alphabetically.
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.
The Betrayal of Montezuma
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.
