ALMA CLASSICS NEW BOOK INFORMATION The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy 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 Anna Karenina and War and Peace, 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, Boyhood, Youth • PB • £8.99 • 978-1-84749-600-3 Hadji Murat • PB • £7.99 • 978-1-84749-481-8 The Death of Ivan Ilyich • PB • £7.99 • 978-1-84749-363-7 The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories • PB • £7.99 • 978-1-84749-411-5 Three Novellas • PB • £8.99 • 978-1-84749-479-5 TO PLACE YOUR ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT: Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Cromwell Place, Hampshire International Business Park, Lime Tree Way, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 8YJ Tel: 01256 302 692 or Fax: 01256 812 521 FOR SALES ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Tel: 0207 631 5600 or Fax: 0207 631 5800 For more information about Alma Classics, please visit: www.almabooks.com.