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There are many sites devoted to individual authors that contain translated texts. You can find them searching for e.g. "German literature translation", "Tolstoy translation", etc. However, be cautious and look for signs that the translation has some kind of authority behind it. Who is sponsoring the site? If the text has been scanned, has it been done accurately? In a word, be critical. If in doubt, turn for help to your professor, librarian or to a native speaker.
To find books on translation studies, do an Advanced Search in DiscoverUR with "Translating and Interpreting" as a subject. You can browse the list of subjects here.
To find books about translating particular languages search for the subject "X language translating", e.g. French language translating.
To find books about translations of works of specific authors, use a Boolean search for author's last name and "translations", e.g. Shakespeare and translations.
To locate translations of specific works, search the WorldCat database for the author and/or the original title of the work and limit the search to the desired language using the drop-down box below. The list of results will indicate which items can be found in the UR Libraries. To locate those books, click on the title link and then again on "Search the catalog at University of Rochester Libraries".
If we don't have a particular book in our collections, you can request it through interlibrary loan.
Another place to look is UNESCO's Index Translationum, but it only includes translations published since 1979.
Translation Database on Three Percent records new translations of fiction and poetry published or distributed in the U.S. since January 1st, 2008. The data is presented inannual cumulations.
