Glory Dead (Peepal Tree Press), the latest in the publisher’s Caribbean Modern Classics Series, is an account of Trinidad in the late 1930s by the left-wing British author Arthur Calder-Marshall. First published in 1939, the book is unsparing in its exploration of social conditions in colonial Trinidad, while its author has “a novelist’s eye for characters and situations,” making it lively and highly readable. With a new introduction by historian Bridget Brereton.