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Well, that's a fair question. But that portion is perhaps especially difficult because it's a poem. I've repeated the exercise with the first page of the prose proper. (It's also a fair question whether the modernization step is involved enough to be called a translation, which would be its own kett...

Jacques le fataliste et son maître aka Jacques the Fatalist and his Master is an amusing book of famous provenance. The public domain translation I found, James the Fatalist and his Master , is from 1797, but still reads pretty smoothly to the modern reader. Also, it seems to be presented in a scri...

Hey folks, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I've been able to locate a public domain translation of Le Livre de la Cité des Dames into English! The bad news is that it's Middle English. It seems there was not a lot of Anglophone interest in The Book of the City of Ladies between ...