George eliot translator (14 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 368 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 368 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 369 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 349 pages. Spanish language. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 762 pages. 5.50x1.81x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 369 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 369 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Two vols, 8vo, I: pp.[iv], 363, [1, contents]; II: pp.[iv], 363, [1, contents]; light foxing to first and final leaves; nonetheless a very good set in contemporary tan buckram, gilt green-morocco lettering-pieces to spines; spines and corners lightly bumped; contemporary circular 'Manoir d'Aspremont' ink stamps with initials RC to half-titles.First edition in French, exceptionally rare, of George Eliot's celebrated semi-autobiographical novel The Mill on the Floss, translated with her approval by her friend and correspondent François d'Albert Durade, with whom she had lodged in Geneva from October 1849 to March 1850, and who painted what is perhaps her most famous portrait. Five days after her father's funeral in June 1849, Eliot, then aged thirty, travelled to Switzerland with her friends Charles and Cara Bray, staying on in Switzerland long after they had returned to England. In Geneva, she 'bravely took lodgings and spent a winter trying out her new found independence, and taking stock. A sympathetic family, the D'Albert Durades, took her in as a paying guest [François] painted her portrait in February 1850, representing her as modest, pensive, long-faced, but pleasant looking. Mary Ann spent her time in Geneva reading, walking, learning mathematics, and continuing with a translation (never to be finished) of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus which she had begun during her father's illness' (ODNB). In an October 1849 letter to the Brays, she describes François and his wife, the painter Julie d'Albert-Durade (née Covelle), whom Eliot affectionately called 'Maman', as 'really clever people people worth sitting up an hour longer to talk to' (Cross ed.I, p.166). François accompanied Eliot on her journey back to England five months later, and the two would exchange letters until the end of Eliot's life (although Durade would destroy her letters to him shortly thereafter). In an approbation to the half-title verso dated 28 June 1860 less than three months after the publication of the first English edition, which had sold 4600 copies within four days Eliot explicitly authorises her 'friend, M.D'Albert Durade, of Geneva, to translate into French my recently published novel "The Mill on the Floss"'. The two saw each other for the last time that June, during Eliot's visit to Switzerland with her husband, George Henry Lewes. Durade was also the translator of Eliot's Adam Bede (1861), Silas Marner (1863), Romola (1878), and Scenes of Clerical Life (1884). On receiving a proof copy of his Famille Tulliver, Eliot fondly writes to Durade that she 'shall glance at the pages, that I may imagine the translator more vividly by reading phrases which may have been in his mind a little too often for his patience, perhaps, in the long business of revision and proof-correcting. Yet I hardly need any help in bringing you and Maman before me, and hearing the tone of the two voices' (Cross ed.II, p.265). OCLC finds only two copies in the US (Morgan and Princeton) and none in the UK. Not in Library Hub. LorenzVIII, p.376. See Cross ed., George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters and Journals (18959) Language: French.…

8vo. 4 pp. Printed letterhead The Priory, 21. North Bank, Regents Park". To Fanny Lewald, who had asked her to assist with the translation of her husband Adolf Stahr's biography of Tiberius into English. At first, about family matters. [] We are beginning to shrink from the fatigues of seeking change in foreign travel, & are inclined rather to spend the finer months of the year in an English coun- try place a villeggiatura which will not demand a long railway journey as a preliminary. We neither of us, I think, shall be fit for comparison with you, even long before we reach our 62nd birthday. For I imagine you looking still, not only handsome, but strong & animated, making life more cheerful to others by the mere sight of you.Now about the Tiberius! [] I fear that there is hardly a chance of its finding its way into an English translation. The truth is, our public is stupidly indifferent to certain forms of literature, & publishers here are especially disinclined to historical works which cannnot secure the sale of school books. I shall take care to mention the work to studious & accomplished men, who might possibly be able to review the work in one of the higher periodicals []".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 369 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.