Lefevere' s Translation/History/ Culture: a sourcebook is a valuable and instigating reading from beginning to end. As the book's title aptly announces, it is a collection of texts concerning literary translation, tracing its historical and cultural genealogy from about 106 BC to 1931 AD. These texts are presented as quotations extracted from the works of eminent translators of Greek, Latin, French, German, and English, offering the reader an unprecedented look at original material which has often been merely referred to or paraphrased in other books.
