Burton Raffel

62 books

Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Old Goriot

La Comédie Humaine #23

Honoré de Balzac

304 pages • first pub 1835 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective medium-paced
Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel #1

François Rabelais

439 pages • first pub 1532 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes

Perceval: The Story of the Grail

Arthurian Romances #5

Chrétien de Troyes

320 pages • first pub 1190 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous slow-paced
The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Carolyn Forché, Edward C. Dimock, Aga Shahid Ali, Garrett Hongo, Jeffery Paine, Donald Keene, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Hirsch, Perry Link, Bei Dao, Sven Birkerts, Denise Levertov, Burton Raffel, Joseph Brodsky, Anita Desai, Helen Vendler

The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

Carolyn Forché, Edward C. Dimock, Aga Shahid Ali, Garrett Hongo, Jeffery Paine, Donald Keene, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Hirsch, Perry Link, Bei Dao, Sven Birkerts, Denise Levertov, Burton Raffel, Joseph Brodsky, Anita Desai, Helen Vendler

544 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative slow-paced
The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

576 pages • first pub 1830 (editions)

fiction classics dark mysterious tense slow-paced
The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Rose Terry Cooke, Various, Zona Gale, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Grace Elizabeth King, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mark Twain, Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Saroyan, Burton Raffel, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, James Thurber, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benét, Harold Frederick, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, John Dos Passos, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Francis Hopkinson Smith, William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Rose Terry Cooke, Various, Zona Gale, Jack London, O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Grace Elizabeth King, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mark Twain, Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Saroyan, Burton Raffel, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, James Thurber, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Vincent Benét, Harold Frederick, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, John Dos Passos, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Francis Hopkinson Smith, William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

557 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J. J. Anderson, Unknown

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

J. J. Anderson, Unknown

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry adventurous slow-paced
The Song of the Cid by María Rosa Menocal, Burton Raffel

The Song of the Cid

María Rosa Menocal, Burton Raffel

288 pages • first pub 1140 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous slow-paced
Song of the Nibelungs: A Verse Translation from the Middle High German Nibelungenlied by Unknown

Song of the Nibelungs: A Verse Translation from the Middle High German Nibelungenlied

Unknown

448 pages • first pub 1200 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous dark slow-paced
41 Stories by O. Henry, Burton Raffel

41 Stories

O. Henry, Burton Raffel

416 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction classics short stories funny reflective fast-paced