Frank Davison

Frank Davison

Frank Davison was a British translator. He is best known for his translation of Alain-Fournier's classic novel "Le Grand Meaulnes". [ "Look back in languor,"Sunday Herald, May 20, 2007 by Alan Taylor, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20070520/ai_n19166651 ] This translation, first published by Oxford University Press in 1959, has remained in print ever since. It is the "classic" translation of the work, praised for its "fine literary English." [ http://umi.no-ip.com/799 ] A review by L.A. Brisson in [ French Studies.1960; XIV: 273-276 ] called Davison’s translation of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes “reussit a merveille,” a “wonderfully successful.”

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* Le Grand Meaulnes and other books by Henri Alain-Fournier, Frank Davison (Translator)

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