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John Michael Cohen

    John Michael Cohen was een productief vertaler van Europese literatuur naar het Engels. Hij begon zijn vertaalcarrière met de eerste Engelse vertaling van gedichten van Boris Pasternak, die destijds buiten de Sovjet-Unie onbekend was. Zijn vertaalwerk kreeg lof van vooraanstaande literaire figuren. Cohen speelde een cruciale rol in de Latijns-Amerikaanse Boom van de jaren 1960 door werken van belangrijke auteurs te vertalen en ze onder de aandacht van Engelstalige lezers te brengen. Naast zijn uitgebreide vertaal- en redactiewerk schreef hij ook werken over literatuurkritiek en biografie.

    The Betrayal of Montezuma
    Don Quixote
    The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-century Quotations
    The Penguin dictionary of quotations
    John Cohen
    The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
    • John Cohen

      Here and Gone, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie & the 1960s

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      John Cohen’s portraiture of two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers John Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the American folk revival's most authentic and respected musical groups. In the 1960s he made a series of photographs of the last years of Woody Guthrie's life, and early portraits of Bob Dylan on his arrival in New York, depicting two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers. In the process, Cohen portrayed one of the great moments of American folk music history. The book contains other images from the 1960s, including the music scenes at Washington Square and on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, images of Jerry Garcia and the musicians in San Francisco's Family Dog, as well as the psychedelic Sky River Rock festival. In 1970, Dylan requested Cohen make another set of color photographs of him with a camera that could take photographs from a block away. He was portrayed walking unrecognized on the streets of the city and at a farm in upstate New York. The photographs were used in Dylan's album Self Portrait.

      John Cohen
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    • The Penguin dictionary of quotations

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      This volume of memorable quotations, old and new, will be useful for competition entries and crosswords, speeches or letters or purely to dip into for entertainment.

      The Penguin dictionary of quotations
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    • This is a companion and source book for the reader, the writer, the after-dinner speaker, the crossword puzzle solver and the browser. The dictionary can be used in two ways: by turning up key words such as life, god, love or money or by making direct use of the first section where authors, and their memorable statements, are listed alphabetically.

      The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-century Quotations
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    • Don Quixote

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      Don Quixote is a masterpiece of world fiction, a brilliant satire on traditional romances and an uproarious comedy and a prose-epic in a new genre for its time. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Don Quixote's mount is an old, bedraggled horse named Rocinante on which he travels through sixteenth-century Spain in search of adventure, dedicating his actions of valour to a simple country girl whom he calls Dulcinea, seeing her as his lady. He takes on spirits, evil enchanters and most famously, of course, giants in the form of windmills.

      Don Quixote
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    • The Betrayal of Montezuma

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      One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.

      The Betrayal of Montezuma
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    • The Penguin Thesaurus of Quotations

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      A collection of over 12,000 quotations on subjects ranging from age and youth to body parts, by such assorted individuals as Dolly Parton, Moliere, and Lord Byron

      The Penguin Thesaurus of Quotations
    • Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and second, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

      The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse: Third Edition (Parallel Text)