Pete Ayrton founded Serpent’s Tail in 1986 with a mission to introduce British readers to risk-taking world literature no one else in the UK was publishing.
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Serpent’s Tail Classics is an impressively diverse selection of cult masterpieces that have changed the way we see the world. We’re proud to have authors including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Albertine Sarrazin and David Gates on this list, with introductions by great writers ranging from Patti Smith to Bernardine Evaristo.
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A period of work as translator led to a job as editor with Pluto Press and to his founding in 1986 of Serpent's Tail with the specific remit of publishing fiction in translation; this includes two First World War classics, Frederic Manning's Her Privates We and Gabriel Chevallier's Fear, both represented in No Man's Land.
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