With The Greek Girl"s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbe Prevost"s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d"une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman"s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called "arguably the most valuable critical edition" of Prevost"s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prevost"s roman a clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador"s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an...