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by Leo Tolstoy


  NIGEL J. COOPER read French and Russian at Christ Church, Oxford. He has recently retired from Middlesex University where he was a Principal Lecturer in Modern Languages.

  ABOUT THE INTRODUCER

  JOHN BAYLEY is former Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. His many books include Tolstoy and the Novel; Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary; The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen; An Essay on Hardy, Shakespeare and Tragedy and a detailed study of A. E. Housman’s poems. He has also written several novels.

  TITLES IN EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY

  CHINUA ACHEBE

  The African Trilogy

  Things Fall Apart

  AESCHYLUS

  The Oresteia

  ISABEL ALLENDE

  The House of the Spirits

  THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

  (in 2 vols, tr. Husain Haddawy)

  MARGARET ATWOOD

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

  The Audubon Reader

  AUGUSTINE

  The Confessions

  JANE AUSTEN

  Emma

  Mansfield Park

  Northanger Abbey

  Persuasion

  Pride and Prejudice

  Sanditon and Other Stories

  Sense and Sensibility

  HONORÉ DE BALZAC

  Cousin Bette

  Eugénie Grandet

  Old Goriot

  GIORGIO BASSANI

  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

  SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

  The Second Sex

  SAMUEL BECKETT

  Molloy, Malone Dies,

  The Unnamable

  (US only)

  SAUL BELLOW

  The Adventures of Augie March

  HECTOR BERLIOZ

  The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

  THE BIBLE

  (King James Version)

  The Old Testament

  The New Testament

  WILLIAM BLAKE

  Poems and Prophecies

  GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

  Decameron

  JORGE LUIS BORGES

  Ficciones

  JAMES BOSWELL

  The Life of Samuel Johnson

  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

  RAY BRADBURY

  The Stories of Ray Bradbury

  JEAN ANTHELME

  BRILLAT-SAVARIN

  The Physiology of Taste

  CHARLOTTE BRONTË

  Jane Eyre

  Villette

  Shirley and The Professor

  EMILY BRONTË

  Wuthering Heights

  MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

  The Master and Margarita

  SAMUEL BUTLER

  The Way of all Flesh

  JAMES M. CAIN

  The Postman Always Rings Twice

  Double Indemnity

  Mildred Pierce

  Selected Stories

  (in 1 vol. US only)

  ITALO CALVINO

  If on a winter’s night a traveler

  ALBERT CAMUS

  The Outsider (UK)

  The Stranger (US)

  The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

  (in 1 vol.)

  GIACOMO CASANOVA

  History of My Life

  WILLA CATHER

  Death Comes for the Archbishop (US only) My Ántonia

  BENVENUTO CELLINI

  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

  Don Quixote

  RAYMOND CHANDLER

  The novels (in 2 vols)

  Collected Stories

  GEOFFREY CHAUCER

  Canterbury Tales

  ANTON CHEKHOV

  The Complete Short Novels

  My Life and Other Stories

  The Steppe and Other Stories

  KATE CHOPIN

  The Awakening

  CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

  On War

  S. T. COLERIDGE

  Poems

  WILKIE COLLINS

  The Moonstone

  The Woman in White

  CONFUCIUS

  The Analects

  JOSEPH CONRAD

  Heart of Darkness

  Lord Jim

  Nostromo

  The Secret Agent

  Typhoon and Other Stories

  Under Western Eyes

  Victory

  THOMAS CRANMER

  The Book of Common Prayer

  (UK only)

  ROALD DAHL

  Collected Stories

  DANTE ALIGHIERI

  The Divine Comedy

  CHARLES DARWIN

  The Origin of Species

  The Voyage of the Beagle

  (in 1 vol.)

  DANIEL DEFOE

  Moll Flanders

  Robinson Crusoe

  CHARLES DICKENS

  Barnaby Rudge

  Bleak House

  A Christmas Carol and other

  Christmas Books

  David Copperfield

  Dombey and Son

  Great Expectations

  Hard Times

  Little Dorrit

  Martin Chuzzlewit

  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

  Nicholas Nickleby

  The Old Curiosity Shop

  Oliver Twist

  Our Mutual Friend

  The Pickwick Papers

  A Tale of Two Cities

  DENIS DIDEROT

  Memoirs of a Nun

  JOAN DIDION

  We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order

  to Live (US only)

  JOHN DONNE

  The Complete English Poems

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

  The Adolescent

  The Brothers Karamazov

  Crime and Punishment

  Demons

  The Double and The Gambler

  The Idiot

  Notes from Underground

  W. E. B. DU BOIS

  The Souls of Black Folk

  (US only)

  ALEXANDRE DUMAS

  The Count of Monte Cristo

  UMBERTO ECO

  The Name of the Rose

  GEORGE ELIOT

  Adam Bede

  Daniel Deronda

  Middlemarch

  The Mill on the Floss

  Silas Marner

  JOHN EVELYN

  The Diary of John Evelyn

  (UK only)

  WILLIAM FAULKNER

  The Sound and the Fury

  (UK only)

  HENRY FIELDING

  Joseph Andrews and Shamela

  (UK only)

  Tom Jones

  F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

  The Great Gatsby

  This Side of Paradise

  (UK only)

  PENELOPE FITZGERALD

  The Bookshop

  The Gate of Angels

  The Blue Flower

  (in 1 vol.)

  Offshore

  Human Voices

  The Beginning of Spring

  (in 1 vol.)

  GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

  Madame Bovary

  FORD MADOX FORD

  The Good Soldier

  Parade’s End

  RICHARD FORD

  The Bascombe Novels

  E. M. FORSTER

  Howards End

  A Passage to India

  GEORGE MACDONALD

  FRASER

  Flashman

  Flash for Freedom!

  Flashman in the Great Game

  (in 1 vol.)

  ELIZABETH GASKELL

  Mary Barton

  EDWARD GIBBON

  The Decline and Fall of the

  Roman Empire

  Vols 1 to 3: The Western Empire

  Vols 4 to 6: The Eastern Empire

  KAHLIL GIBRAN

  The Collected Works

  J. W. VON GOETHE

  Selected Works

  NIKOLAI GOGOL

  The
Collected Tales

  Dead Souls

  IVAN GONCHAROV

  Oblomov

  GÜNTER GRASS

  The Tin Drum

  GRAHAM GREENE

  Brighton Rock

  The Human Factor

  DASHIELL HAMMETT

  The Maltese Falcon

  The Thin Man

  Red Harvest

  (in 1 vol.)

  The Dain Curse,

  The Glass Key,

  and Selected Stories

  THOMAS HARDY

  Far From the Madding Crowd

  Jude the Obscure

  The Mayor of Casterbridge

  The Return of the Native

  Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  The Woodlanders

  JAROSLAV HAŠEK

  The Good Soldier Švejk

  NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

  The Scarlet Letter

  JOSEPH HELLER

  Catch-22

  ERNEST HEMINGWAY

  A Farewell to Arms

  The Collected Stories

  (UK only)

  GEORGE HERBERT

  The Complete English Works

  HERODOTUS

  The Histories

  MICHAEL HERR

  Dispatches (US only)

  PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

  The Talented Mr. Ripley

  Ripley Under Ground

  Ripley’s Game

  (in 1 vol.)

  HINDU SCRIPTURES

  (tr. R. C. Zaehner)

  JAMES HOGG

  Confessions of a Justified Sinner

  HOMER

  The Iliad

  The Odyssey

  VICTOR HUGO

  Les Misérables

  HENRY JAMES

  The Awkward Age

  The Bostonians

  The Golden Bowl

  The Portrait of a Lady

  The Princess Casamassima

  The Wings of the Dove

  Collected Stories (in 2 vols)

  SAMUEL JOHNSON

  A Journey to the Western

  Islands of Scotland

  JAMES JOYCE

  Dubliners

  A Portrait of the Artist as

  a Young Man

  Ulysses

  FRANZ KAFKA

  Collected Stories

  The Castle

  The Trial

  JOHN KEATS

  The Poems

  SØREN KIERKEGAARD

  Fear and Trembling and

  The Book on Adler

  MAXINE HONG KINGSTON

  The Woman Warrior and

  China Men

  (US only)

  RUDYARD KIPLING

  Collected Stories

  Kim

  THE KORAN

  (tr. Marmaduke Pickthall)

  CHODERLOS DE LACLOS

  Les Liaisons dangereuses

  GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI

  LAMPEDUSA

  The Leopard

  WILLIAM LANGLAND

  Piers Plowman

  with (anon.) Sir Gawain and the

  Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo

  (UK only)

  D. H. LAWRENCE

  Collected Stories

  The Rainbow

  Sons and Lovers

  Women in Love

  MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

  A Hero of Our Time

  DORIS LESSING

  Stories

  PRIMO LEVI

  If This is a Man and The Truce

  (UK only)

  The Periodic Table

  THE MABINOGION

  NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI

  The Prince

  NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

  The Cairo Trilogy

  Three Novels of Ancient Egypt

  THOMAS MANN

  Buddenbrooks

  Collected Stories (UK only)

  Death in Venice and Other Stories

  (US only)

  Doctor Faustus

  Joseph and His Brothers

  The Magic Mountain

  KATHERINE MANSFIELD

  The Garden Party and Other

  Stories

  MARCUS AURELIUS

  Meditations

  GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

  The General in His Labyrinth

  Love in the Time of Cholera

  One Hundred Years of Solitude

  ANDREW MARVELL

  The Complete Poems

  W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

  Collected Stories

  The Skeptical Romancer (US only)

  CORMAC McCARTHY

  The Border Trilogy

  HERMAN MELVILLE

  The Complete Shorter Fiction

  Moby-Dick

  JOHN STUART MILL

  On Liberty and Utilitarianism

  JOHN MILTON

  The Complete English Poems

  YUKIO MISHIMA

  The Temple of the

  Golden Pavilion

  MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

  Letters

  MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

  The Complete Works

  THOMAS MORE

  Utopia

  TONI MORRISON

  Beloved

  Song of Solomon

  ALICE MUNRO

  Carried Away: A Selection of Stories

  MURASAKI SHIKIBU

 

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