Publishers realize there are plenty of books out there that everyone knows but few have read. Is it because they’re too hard? So publishers are putting out “new editions of some of the great, often unread, works with a fresh emphasis on ‘accessibility’. Some may call it dumbing down. The books will be, well, simpler. One of the first to receive the treatment is Tolstoy’s War and Peace, republished this month by Penguin in a new, reader-friendly translation.”