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Don Quixote by Edith Grossman 9780060188702
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060188702Author Edith GrossmanFormat HardbackPage Count 940Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher... -
Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92From the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garcia Marquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art "Groundbreaking."-New York Times Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural... -
Nada by Edith Grossman 9780099494195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.03Eighteen-year old Andrea moves to Barcelona to stay with relatives she has not seen in years while she pursues her dreams of studying at university. Arriving in the dead of night she discovers not... -
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance by Edith Grossman 9780393329919
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's "Golden Age, " Edith Grossman turns her passionate fervor and stylistic brilliance to the works of... -
The Solitudes by Luis de Gongora 9780143106722
Booksplease Price: £12.72An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic... -
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Selected Works by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz 9780393920161
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.72Edith Grossman's acclaimed translations of The Tenth Muse's best known works are offered here with introductory materials and explanatory footnotes, along with related additional works and eight... -
Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
Booksplease Price: £14.22Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic "Compressed masterworks, containing great canvases and big ideas... -
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Selected Works by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz 9780393241754
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of... -
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes 9781784878962
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.45'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben OkriWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the... -
The Valley of the Fallen by Carlos Rojas
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas's imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one... -
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.45WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque... -
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Selected Works by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.90Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of... -
Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso 9780292751842
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds,... -
Celestina by Fernando de Rojas 9780300141993
Booksplease Price: £13.92The first European novel, exquisitely translated by Margaret Sayers Peden A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas's Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second... -
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomas believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but... -
The Conference of the Birds by Attar
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.33Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for his epic poem The Conference of the Birds, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. The... -
The Dancer and the Thief: A Novel by Antonio Skarmeta 9780393333671
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.12This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protege, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where... -
The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems C�sar Vallejo 9780811237666
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo-one of Latin America's most famous poets-was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines, after discovering the works of... -
In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages by Ariel Dorfman 9780822329879
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto-love,... -
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780141189208
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern... -
The Song of the Cid: A Dual Language Edition with Parallel Text by Anonymous 9780143105657
Booksplease Price: £12.22One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, "The Song of the Cid" recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar both - 'Mio... -
The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9780820346076
RRP: £86.95Booksplease Price: £73.17This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight... -
Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets by Salvador Novo 9780292705418
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Written with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico's foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and "living dangerously" as an... -
The Philosophy of Translation Damion Searls 9780300247374
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and cliched metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a... -
In the Night of Time Antonio Munoz Molina 9781781255094
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to... -
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Esther Allen 9780231159685
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice... -
Save Twilight: Selected Poems: Pocket Poets No. 53 by Julio Cortazar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016 "Cortazar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical,... -
Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector."-Mariana Enriquez, LitHubDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the... -
The Promise by Silvina Ocampo 9780872867710
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most...