This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Mura

Understanding Tolstoy recreates Tolstoy's lifelong artistic and spiritual journey, taking readers to the core of the writer's world through nuanced close readin

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Drawing on recently de-classified material, the contributors strip away the propaganda and preconceptions of the past to present an absorbing account of the ris