Archive for the ‘19th century’ Category
Butterball (1880, Boule de suif), by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Andrew Brown
Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 22, 2023
Little Britain (1819), by Washington Irving
Posted by: Lisa Hill on March 7, 2022
The Assommoir (1877), by Émile Zola, a new translation by Brian Nelson
Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 25, 2022
Hunger (1890), by Knut Hamsun, translated by George Egerton
Posted by: Lisa Hill on October 22, 2021
A Double Life (1848), by Karolina Pavlova, translated by Barbara Heldt
Posted by: Lisa Hill on August 27, 2021
‘Alyosha the Pot’ (1911), by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Clarence Brown, in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021), by George Saunders
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 25, 2021
‘Gooseberries’ (1898), by Anton Chekhov, translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021), by George Saunders
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 21, 2021
‘Master and Man’ (1895), by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude, in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021), by George Saunders
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 19, 2021
‘The Darling’ (1899), by Anton Chekhov, translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021), by George Saunders
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 16, 2021
‘The Singers’ (1852), by Ivan Turgenev, translated by David Magarshack, in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021), by George Saunders
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 15, 2021
‘The Schoolmistress’ (1897, ‘In the Cart’) by Anton Chekhov, from The Tales of Chekhov, Vol 9, translated by Constance Garnett, in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (2021), by George Saunders
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 13, 2021
Doctor Pascal (1893), by Émile Zola, translated by Julie Rose
Posted by: Lisa Hill on April 10, 2021
A Day in the Country (Une partie de Campagne), in Original Short Stories Vol 12, (1881) by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Albert M C McMaster
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 13, 2021
Max Havelaar (1860), by Multatuli, translated by Ina Rilke and David McKay
Posted by: Lisa Hill on September 28, 2019
La Mare au Diable (1846, The Devil’s Pool), by George Sand
Posted by: Lisa Hill on June 13, 2019
(Further thoughts) Ever Yours, C. H. Spence (2005), edited by Susan Magarey, with Barbara Wall, Mary Lyons and Maryan Beams
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 22, 2019
(Re-reading) His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876), by Émile Zola, a new translation by Brian Nelson
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 19, 2019
Ever Yours, C. H. Spence, (2005) edited by Susan Magarey, with Barbara Wall, Mary Lyons and Maryan Beams
Posted by: Lisa Hill on January 18, 2019
City Folk and Country Folk (1863), by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov
Posted by: Lisa Hill on August 22, 2018
A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (1853), by Ellen Clacy
Posted by: Lisa Hill on February 11, 2018
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