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Peter Constantine
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Taras Bulba
Written by Nikolai Gogol, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | December 2003
$13.00/16.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7119-4 (0-8129-7119-1)
The First New Translation in Forty Years
Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.
As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras... Read more
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | April 2007
$17.95/22.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7423-2 (0-8129-7423-9)
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more
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The Prince
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | February 2008
$8.00/10.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7805-6 (0-8129-7805-6)
A new translation by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
The first modern treatise of political philosophy, The Prince is one of the world’s most influential and widely read books. Machiavelli reveals nothing less than the secrets of power: how to gain it, how to wield it, and how to... Read more
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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edited by Leo Damrosch, Translated by Peter Constantine
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | March 2013
$18.00/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-8038-7 (0-8129-8038-7)
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more
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The Cossacks
Written by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | February 2006
$13.00/15.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7504-8 (0-8129-7504-9)
This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy’s semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While striving to adopt the rough and ready... Read more
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Candide
Written by Voltaire, Translated by Peter Constantine, Introduction by Diane Johnson
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | October 2005
$10.00/12.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7201-6 (0-8129-7201-5)
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is “the best of all possible worlds.” The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless... Read more
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