Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

In 1864 Newman professedly had to write his Apologia with his keenest feelings in order to be believed and to command a fair hearing from English readers.

Because the English language has 40 sounds and only 26 letters, children and beginning readers also need to learn the different sounds ( phonemes ) associated with each letter.

At first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success, and its appeal to English musicians had helped to make it widely known before World War I, when its themes struck a powerful chord with English readers.

" A commonwealth of good counsaile " was the title of the 1607 English translation of the work of Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki " De optimo senatore " that presented to English readers many of the ideas present in the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

An inherent problem with the arcane Wade – Giles use of apostrophes to differentiate aspiration is that many English readers do not understand it, which has resulted in the frequent mispronunciation of Taoism as instead of.

Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, " gryphon " appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers.

In June 1982, a Village Voice report by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming that much of his work was derivative of prewar books unfamiliar to English readers, and that Being There was a plagiarism of Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.

With the relaxation of censorship in Japan in the 1990s, a wide variety of explicit sexual themes appeared in manga intended for male readers, and correspondingly occur in English translations.

St. Germain informs his readers that English lawyers generally don't use the phrase " law of nature ," but rather use " reason " as the preferred synonym.

Claiming that Meres was obsessed with numerology, they propose that the numbers should be symmetrical, and that careful readers are meant to infer that Meres knew two of the English poets ( viz., Oxford and Shakespeare ) to actually be one and the same.

Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

While even German readers can find Adorno's work difficult to understand, an additional problem for English readers is that his German idiom is particularly difficult to translate into English.

The British East India Company was an English and later ( from 1707 ) British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent.

William and a group of his knights successfully counter-attacked the pursuing English, who were no longer protected by the shield wall, and cut down large numbers of fyrdmen.

Twice more the Normans fled, these times feigned, and drew the English into pursuing them, allowing the Norman cavalry to attack them repeatedly.

He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War, particularly in the press, and in many pamphlets, while still pursuing the bishops.

They were chased down the valley of the River Usk where they regrouped and turned the tables on the pursuing English force, attempting an ambush.

He majored in English and graduated summa cum laude, then continued his studies at Christ Church, Oxford, pursuing a second Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and graduating in 1982.

Since Prince Henry was unsupported and the rest of the army was withdrawing, for the most part in great disorder, he hid any banners showing his party to be Scottish, and retreated towards David by joining the English pursuing him.

Large audiences came to hear Sharp lecture about folk music, and Sharp also took the opportunity to do field work on English folk songs that had survived in the more remote regions of southern Appalachia, pursuing a line of research pioneered by Olive Dame Campbell.

Caught up in a storm in the English Channel, the Ariel spots pursuing a French two-decker, the Meduse.

This turned into a campaign for the newspaper's Insight investigative team, and Evans himself took on the drug companies responsible for the manufacture of Thalidomide, pursuing them through the English courts and eventually gaining victory in the European Court of Human Rights.

His dissertation was a theological engagement with Karl Marx ’ philosophy of labor, and pursuing this project lead him to study both German idealist philosophy and English political economy.

An English journalist called Parkinson arrives at the village with the intention of writing a series of articles, to be syndicated in many European and North American newspapers, on the subject of Querry's perceived ' saintly ' activities in the village, including a story of Querry pursuing his servant-an African mutilated by Leprosy -, who became lost in the jungle.

On the morning of the next day both forces transpired to be still close to each other and De Ruyter hoped by aggressively pursuing to capture some stragglers ; several English ships were in tow and might well be abandoned if he pressed hard enough.

He attended the University of Chicago, initially pursuing a graduate degree in English, but did not finish on account to serving in World War Two.

To Anathram ’ s satisfaction, the 1965 Kannada ACK venture was a great commercial success which lead to Mirchandani in the head office in Mumbai pursuing the Amar Chitra Katha idea in English diligently, and the rest is history.

Schwarzenbach now teaches English at Hunter College in New York and is pursuing a Ph. D. in English Literature ; in October 2008, he started a new band, The Thorns of Life.

Hundreds of English soldiers, some of whom had thrown away their weapons in a panic, were cut down by the pursuing Irish soldiers as they tried to get away.

William Wallace is said to have taken refuge from pursuing English soldiers within the tower, eventually escaping siege by climbing down a overhanging tree.

The group land smack into danger, first a rushing river, then pursuing English riders, warned by French fugitive, Lady Claire ( Anna Friel ).

Following the Battle of Naseby in 1645, during the English Civil War, Great Glen played host to a band of Cromwellian soldiers who were pursuing some of the ( defeated ) Royalist Cavalry.

In pursuing its fundamental purposes and in all its activities, the Party must preserve and promote the status, rights and privileges of English and French.

It is not a process of turning this Italian noun into that English one, but rather of pursuing a cadence, a rhythm — sometimes regular, sometimes wilfully jagged — and trying to catch it, while, like a Wagner villain, it may squirm and change shape in your hands.

For several years he has been pursuing a major research interest in the life and work of the renowned poet and critic Sir William Empson — who was Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield from 1953 until his retirement in 1972.

With the rising popularity of the Internet, there is a current vogue in China for coining English transliterations, for example, 粉丝 ／ 粉絲 fěnsī " fans ", 黑客 hēikè " hacker " ( lit.

Writer Edward Koelwel rejects the suggestion that kitsch derives from the English word sketch, noting how the sketch was not then in vogue, and saying that kitsch art pictures were well-executed, finished paintings rather than sketches.

Although Browne wrote about quincunx in its geometric meaning, he may also have been influenced by English astrology, as the astrological meaning of " quincunx " ( unrelated to the pattern ) had recently come into vogue.

A particularly odd English ergative verb is " graduate ": " he graduated from school " and " school graduated him " mean the same thing, although the latter usage has passed out of vogue, and one meets with occasional criticism of the intransitive form.

Among English composers of the early-20th century there was some vogue for the use of a " bass oboe ", for example in Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets ( 1916 ), as well as in several works of Frederick Delius ( A Mass of Life, 1904-1905 ; Dance Rhapsody No. 1, 1908 ), Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 1 ( 1921 ), Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony ( 1919-1927 ) and Symphony No. 4 ( Das Siegeslied ), and supposedly in the original instrumentation of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' A London Symphony ( 1912-1913 ).

Kenneth Gilbert More CBE ( 20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982 ) was an English film and stage actor, who enjoyed a tremendous vogue in the 1950's, earning many international awards.

In 1588 Nicholas Yonge published his Musica transalpina, the collection of Italian madrigals fitted with English texts, which touched off the explosive and colorful vogue for madrigal composition in England.

The Feast of Fools had its chief vogue in the French cathedrals, but there are a few English records of it, notably in Lincoln Cathedral and Beverley Minster.

The book became en vogue in Paris after it had been reviewed by French journalists who were amused by what they recognised as English humour.

Like Arne, Lampe wrote operatic works in English in defiance of the vogue for Italian opera popularised by George Frideric Handel and Nicola Porpora.

41, where it is called " a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion ," and in Ferdinando Killigrew's The Universal Jester, subtitled " a choice collection of many conceits ... bon-mots and humbugs " from 1754 ; as mentioned in Encyclopædia Britannica from 1911, which further refers to the New English Dictionary.

This persecution gave the book an extraordinary vogue, and it passed through twenty-two editions in three years, besides being translated into several languages ; there is an English translation by Lord Falconbridge, son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell.