Selected Translations By Cohen
- Boris Pasternak, Selected Poems, London: Drummond, 1946.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Penguin, 1950.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions, Penguin, 1953.
- François Rabelais, The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Penguin, 1955.
- St. Teresa of Avila, The Life of St. Teresa of Avila by Herself, Penguin, 1957.
- Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Penguin, 1958.
- Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain, Penguin, 1963.
- Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina or The Spanish Bawd: Being the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea, Penguin, 1964.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Appearance of Man, London: Collins, 1965.
- Agustín de Zárate, The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Penguin, 1968.
- Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus; Being His Own Log-book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narrative Drawn from the Life of the Admiral by His Son Hernando Colon and Other Contemporary Historians, Penguin, 1969.
- Heberto Padilla, Sent off the Field: A Selection from the Poetry of Heberto Padilla, London: Deutsch, 1972.
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