Cohen, John Michael
COHEN, JOHN MICHAEL
COHEN, JOHN MICHAEL (1903–1988), English critic and translator. A businessman turned writer, Cohen published many Penguin Classics that bear the stamp of mature reflection and wide reading. His works include translations of Cervantes' Don Quixote (1950), Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel (1955), and Montaigne's Essays (1958); History of Western Literature (1956); The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations (1960); Latin American Writing Today (1967); and a series of comic verse anthologies.
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