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This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects of translating poetry, the second involved with more practice-oriented... See More
Poetry & Drama
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Poetry & DramaA large and diverse volume of poetry by acclaimed writer and translator Burton Raffel. See More
World LiteratureA young Vienna boy, coming home, sees Nazi soldiers attacking his parents. He runs away, dirties himself, and becomes both a farm boy and -- slowly -- a strange magician. Years later he leaves, for the far off border of... See More
Action & AdventureHanzit Kranzi, a ten-year old illiterate in a rugged, isolated mountain land, stumbles into a famous Parisian scientist, Pierre Trenet, who finds him helpful -- and lovable. Hanzit is swept into the Western lands, acquires a... See More
Science FictionAfter failing in love affairs and a marriage, our nameless reporter tells us, she leaves the U.S. for a job in Tragón, a strange Balkan country. Her job is with the U.S. representative. Claudio, a fine Tragonian writer... See More
RomanceSet in Columbus, Ohio, and in England, this is a love study. Primary characters are a young female lawyer, who has unusual legal plans, and a European billionaire investor. They almost at sight fall into love, and plan to... See More
World LiteratureAt age fifteen, Herschel's family leaves Russia for the United States, where he refuses to go to school. Taking a low-level job in a store, he works thoroughly and thinks hard. The owner likes him, and falls in love with the... See More
Contemporary FictionA novel both realistic and mystical, Transformations has three major characters -- a young plumber, the plumber's young wife (a new mother, but as yet unmarried), and an "old man" who appears on a park bench, coming out of... See More
Genre FictionThis novel is in twenty-four letters, all sensitively written by a now-famous rock musician and composer. His letter language is very like his highly successful and enormously popular music. These letters struggle most... See More
Poetry & Drama
This collection of acclaimed author and translator Burton Raffel's poetry features original poems on and around a single topic, religious belief and disbelief. It could not be a set of translations from the Old English poet... See More
Literary FictionWhen Walls Are Falling is a coming-of-age love story set in New York City. Laura is a naive college freshman studying at Sarah Lawrence. Having been raised in Colorado, practically a different planet from New York City... See More
Poetry & DramaPoems Without Names is essentially a play written in verse. It follows the "conversation" of two men: one, young and brash, and the other, older and wiser.. See More
World LiteratureEllis Berg Sr. is a successful but solitary man until the son he never knew he had finds him, and changes his life forever. See More
Genre FictionAt age 86 Burton Raffel, a world renowned translator and author, continues to write at a prolific pace. In his novel Learning German, written in 2013, Raffel (who is of Jewish descent) is grappling with a fear that many Jews... See More
Historical FictionSweeping Away, by renowned author and translator Burton Raffel, is a novel about Russian Jews who immigrate to America, and the complications that ensue. See More
Historical FictionYou may not believe it, but every word of this book has been created by rock-hard reality, long since lived, but no longer alive. And in these pages, nothing worth remembering has been forgotten. Very few people expect to be... See More
Literary FictionBarrack P. Jones chronicles the early life of a talented, ambitious young man as he begins to make his mark on the world. See More
This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects of translating poetry, the second involved with more practice-oriented... See More
Poetry & Drama
Historical FictionVery loosely inspired by the life of Igor Stravinsky, a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor widely considered to be one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century... See More
World LiteratureBorn out of violence in occupied France, an orphaned girl grows up in a convent unaware of her Jewish roots. When she comes of age, the past is waiting for her, faced with decisions others have made in the name of her... See More
Literary Fiction
Historical FictionOne of the great opera voices of her generation, Russian Irina Bechenstein had been arrested by her own government and locked away for life in a Siberian prison. She bought her way out by providing accounts of her friends... See More
Poetry & DramaRenowned translator and poet Burton Raffel believes that poetry should be meaningful - not elaborate, but in its own way useful. In Have a Chair, Raffel examines his life from all angles with simplicity and grace. The... See More
Poetry & DramaPoets are musicians, thinkers, clowns. They speak our language, but play with it - even as they are slicing out bloody parts of our lives. The reader, being sung to as he reads, must be shaken, both up and down. What a... See More
Literary FictionI drew Bridge Builder from the desperate but flopping sexual hunger of my favorite cousin. Growing old and recently deserted by his wife, he was trying to help and live with a young woman from Mexico. He failed, soon had a... See More
Genre FictionHad there been no Civil War in 1860, and 17 former states happily united into a new nation, the South was almost certain to have steadily drifted away, with its inhabitants living considerably more shaky and dangerous lives... See More
Science FictionWhen the earth was almost destroyed, human beings were wiped out. But they left behind two heirs. One, known as Androids, was highly intelligent and unpleasant. The other, called "Simps" by the Androids, was large, strong... See More