Ten Days That Shook the World
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A new look at noted works of old
History is being repackaged at Tantallon Press. A new publisher that specializes in producing attractive paperback editions of historical classics that are out of print or in need of updating, Tantallon offers appealing, authoritative books that are specially tailored for the armchair historian. The new imprint emphasizes reader-friendly features like glossaries, maps and explanatory notes in each of its reissued titles. One of Tantallon's top books of the winter season is Ten Days That Shook the World, a vivid firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. Written by journalist John Reed, the book became a bestseller when it was published in 1919. Blending speeches and historical documents with his own eyewitness reportage, Reed composed a narrative reflecting all the uncertainty, danger and suspense that characterized St. Petersburg after the tsar abdicated power in 1917. Tantallon's edition of this critically acclaimed narrative includes a new introduction, as well as 25 new illustrations and an author biography. An interesting figure in his own right, Reed, an avid Socialist (as well as the character around which the hit film Reds, starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton, was based), returned to Russia after the book's publication and became a member of the Comintern. He died there in 1920 and was buried beside the Kremlin wall. Other new titles available from Tantallon include A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan ($14.95, 396 pages, ISBN 0972042822) by Florentia, Lady Sale, wife of Sir Robert Sale, the famous British general. A fascinating diary account of the West's first maneuvers into Afghanistan, the book—originally published in 1843—offers a compelling look at the military jockeying that occurred between Britain and Russia on the northwest frontier of India. The new Tantallon edition contains three historical maps and plenty of illustrations. An overview of art and literature at the turn of the 19th century, The Eighteen Nineties ($14.95, 311pages, ISBN 0972042814) provides a compelling look at the end of an era. Written in 1913 by Holbrook Jackson, a prominent literary critic, the book contains expert evaluations of fin de siËcle poetry and painting, and includes essays on Oscar Wilde, the British Impressionists and Rudyard Kipling.
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