Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith Argall is a historical novel by American writer William T. Vollmann, which was first published in 2001. It is the third book in a planned seven-book cycle entitled . (As of 2015, five of the seven books have been published.) "Argall" is a retelling of the founding of the Jamestown Colony and the legend of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. The novel is primarily written in flowery Elizabethan language, which was met with mixed critical reception; "The New York Times" found the language "endlessly distracting and often silly", whereas the
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (, meaning "The Afternoon Towing") is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965. Translator John Nathan, in his memoir "Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere" writes:My completed translation was due on January 1, 1965, and I was still struggling to contrive an English title for the book. Mishima’s title was an untranslatable pivot on the word “tugging,” as in tugboat. Literally it meant “tugging in the afternoon,” "Gogo no