Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye or Recueil des Histoires de Troye (1464) is a translation by William Caxton of a French courtly romance written by Raoul Lefèvre, chaplain to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. It was the first book printed in the English language. "Recuyell" ("recueil" in Modern French) simply means "collection" in English. Hence, the work in Modern English would read "A Collection of the Histories of Troy". Caxton's translations and sometimes his titles incorporated words from other European languages. Caxton, probably with the assistance of Colard Mansion and Johann Veldener, printed
Bruges-la-Morte the Flemish film director Roland Verhavert adapted the novel as ""Brugge, die stille"". The novel influenced many later writers, including W.G. Sebald. The plot of the book may also have influenced the French crime novel "D'entre les morts" by Boileau-Narcejac, which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as "Vertigo" in 1958. Bruges-la-Morte Bruges-la-Morte (French; The Dead [City of] Bruges) is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons, it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs. A translation by Thomas Duncan