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War and Peace
Translated by Anthony Briggs
Introduction by Orlando Figes
Frequently cited as the greatest novel ever
written, this acclaimed translation is now
available in a black spine edition.
1,440 pp. 978-0-14-044793-4 $18.00
War and Peace
Translated by Anthony Briggs
Introduction by Orlando Figes
Set against the sweeping panoply of
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, War and
Peace—presented here in the first new
English translation in forty years—offers
a view of humanity that is both epic and
intimate and that continues to define
fiction at its most resplendent.
1,424 pp. 978-0-14-303999-0 $18.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
What Is Art?
Translated by Richard Pevear and
Larissa Volokhonsky with a Preface by
Richard Pevear
This profound analysis of the nature of
art is the culmination of a series of essays
and polemics on issues of morality, social
justice, and religion. Considering and
rejecting the idea that art reveals and
reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives
the question of the nature of art to be a
religious one. Ultimately, he concludes, art
must be a force for good, for the progress
and improvement of mankind.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044642-5 $14.00
See The Portable Nineteenth-Century
Russian Reader.
wIllIaM trevor
B. 1928, irish
Fools of Fortune
Introduction by Francine Prose
When an informer’s body is found shortly
after the First World War on the estate of
the Quintons, a wealthy Irish family, an
appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion.
Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and
Tans fire the family home, and only young
Willie and his mother Evie escape alive.
Fatherless, Willie grows into manhood
while his alcoholic mother’s bitter
resentment festers. And though he finds
love, Willie is unable to leave the terrible
injuries of the past behind.
208 pp. 978-0-14-303962-4 $15.00
aNthoNy trollope
1815 – 1882, english
Barchester Towers
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Robin Gilmour and a Preface by
I. K. Galbraith
In this second novel of the Barsetshire
Chronicles series, Trollope continues the
story begun in The Warden and explores
the conflict between the High and Low
Church during the mid-Victorian period.
576 pp. 978-0-14-043203-9 $12.00
“anthony Trollope wrote about conscience
and conflict, self-deception and love . . . His
people are recognizably real today and if
english men and women no longer talk as
his people talk, some intuition tells us that
their speech was once precisely as Trollope
renders it.” —ruth rendell
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