Vintage Classics launches new series of pocket-sized translations

Vintage Classics is launching a new series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrating translation. Vintage Editions will "transport readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 18:17:14 UTC ]
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