Burton Raffel

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

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

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

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

The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

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

557 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Unknown, J. J. Anderson

320 pages • first pub 1375 (editions)

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

The Song of the Cid

Burton Raffel, María Rosa Menocal

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