This is a new edition of V S Vernon Jones's translation, first published by Gregynog Press in the 1930s. The woodcuts are marvellous. Almost more for parents than children.
Another in this terrific series that has already included anthologies from Japan and Italy. Stories from the C19th to the present chosen by the greatest living translator of Spanish literatu... read more
A new translation of this fabulous C16th Chinese work - a wild epic, an outrageous satire, and surely one of the most exuberant works of literature the world has ever known. Based on the mon... read more
Welcome revival by Persephone of a little-known 'sensational novel': a fallen woman attempts to rehabilitate herself, and meets with little sympathy from those around her.
A hardback reissue of the dystopian novel that inspired Orwell, Huxley and many others. It also includes Ursula Le Guin's essay 'Stalin in the Soul' on the influence of Zamyatin's masterpiec... read more