Lost in Translation
Barton Raffel's English version of Le Rouge et le Noir lacks the essential tone and style of Stendhal
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Samuel Pepys did not, in fact, tell us everything
As English as God
Ferdinand Mount brilliantly delineates social class
Incomparable Naturalism
Only an artificer of the highest skill could have produced so seamless an illusion of reality
The Country and the City
With her inclusion in The Library of America, the neglected novelist Dawn Powell has finally achieved literary canonization. Our critic assesses the contrasting worlds of Powell's fiction