ALMA CLASSICS NEW BOOK INFORMATION by Translated by Hugh Aplin SELLING POINTS:

• Beautifully packaged

• Translated by acclaimed translator Hugh Aplin

• Follows on the success of Tolstoy’s collected works, also in the Alma Classics list

• Also contains a substantial amount of extra material, including notes, pictures and a section on Tolstoy’s life and works

DESCRIPTION: In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that this small misdemeanour will have a profound impact on the lives of many other people SERIES: Alma Classics around him – indirectly even leading to the gravest of crimes. This in turn sets off February 22nd 2018 • £7.99 a long journey towards redemption and rehabilitation. 978-1-84749-667-6 160 pp • PB Published only in 1911, after Tolstoy’s death, The Forged Coupon examines the Subject: FC deep, unpredictable consequences of every human act, revealing the Russian Rights: World English master’s moral preoccupations in the last years of his life, as well as his rejection of Christianity’s simplistic division between good and evil.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

“Tolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fi ction.” Vladimir Nabokov

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is regarded by some as the greatest novelist of all time. With such masterpieces as and , he infl uenced generations of writers and changed the course of world literature. ALSO AVAILABLE BY THE SAME AUTHOR: A Calendar of Wisdom • PB • £8.99 • 978-1-84749-563-1 Anna Karenina • PB • £5.99 • 978-1-84749-368-2 Childhood, , • PB • £8.99 • 978-1-84749-600-3 • PB • £7.99 • 978-1-84749-481-8 • PB • £7.99 • 978-1-84749-363-7 and Other Stories • PB • £7.99 • 978-1-84749-411-5 Three Novellas • PB • £8.99 • 978-1-84749-479-5

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