Bruce Hill is a retired translator. His work covered almost any sphere, from the translation of serious medical studies and legal documents to translations of hotel and touristic brochures via innovative IT texts, operator manuals and company press releases, the latter couched in technical phraseology or business jargon. He wished, for once, to distance himself from the world of commercial profit and gain where words are printed on paper, entered in word processors or on spreadsheets and to write for his own pleasure and possibly for the pleasure of others.
J. Farady (a friend)
The first book relates how, after the Napoleonic Wars, a rich English diplomat's lovely daughter meets a poor farmer's son and they fall for each other but a rich French baron has his eyes on the girl and will do all in his power to marry her. There is a battle between the swordsman...
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