Thursday, November 25, 2021

Camus, The Stranger (1993)

Albert Camus.
The Stranger.
Translated by Matthew Ward.
Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Everyman's Library volume 139.

This translation first published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Originally published in French as L'Étranger by Librairie Gallimard, France in 1942.

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Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series.

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In Our Time:
  • Melvyn Bragg, Peter Dunwoodie, David Walker, Christina Howells, "Camus," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 03 January 2008.
    • Professor Peter Dunwoodie, Emeritus Professor of French Literature, Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London.
    • David H. Walker is/was Emeritus Professor of French, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield.
    • Christina Howells, Emeritus Professor of French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (2014)

Barbara W. Tuchman.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
(First published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.)

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Video: Barbara Tuchman
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Tuchman tells this history from the perspective of the French. Most of my reading on this period has been from the English point of view, so Tuchman's work is an interesting contrast.

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