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.
J. M. 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 rendering of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashbery. Cohen played a pivotal role in bringing Latin American literature to English-speaking audiences, particularly during the Latin American Boom of the 1960s, and also authored works of literary criticism and biography.
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.