Essay Review : Classics in translation

Balzac, Cousin Bette, translated by Sylvia Raphael with an introduction by David Bellos, 1992; Balzac, Eugénie Grandet, translated by Sylvia Raphael with an introduction by Christopher Prendergast, 1990; Balzac, Père Goriot, translated and edited by A. J. Krailsheimer, 1991; Baudelaire, The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo, translated with an introduction by Rosemary Lloyd, 1991; Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, edited with an introduction by David Coward, 1990; Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, edited with an introduction by David Coward, 1991; Dumas, The Three Musketeers, edited with an introduction by David Coward, 1991; Flaubert, Three Tales, translated and edited by A. J. Krailsheimer, 1991; Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man and other Prison Writings, translated with an introduction by Geoff Woollen, 1992; Madame de Lafayette, The Princesse de Clèves, the Princesse de Montpensier, the Comtesse de Tende, translated with an introduction by Terence Cave, 1992; Stendhal, The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater with an introduction by Roger Pearson, 1991; Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, translated with an introduction by William Butcher, 1992; Zola, Nana, translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmée, 1992; Zola, Thérèse Raquin, translated with an introduction by Andrew Rothwell, 1992: The World's Classics (Oxford University Press), paperback, variously priced between £3.99 and £6.99.