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Collected Shorter Fiction by Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude (Translator); Nigel J. Cooper (Translator); John Bayley (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy's short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia's great novelist. Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals how Tolstoy's growing spiritual preoccupations ...Show more
Confession by Leo N. Tolstoy; David Patterson (Translator)
Category: Classics
Marking a shift in his career from the aesthetic to the religious, Tolstoy'sConfession relates this spiritual crisis, posing the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? It is a timeless account of an individual's struggle for faith and meaning.
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy; T. C. B. Cook (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy s late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it ...Show more
Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later storie ...Show more
How Much Land Does A Man Need? : Little Black Classic by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's ...Show more
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and civilization.
Lives and Deaths by Leo Tolstoy ; Boris Dralyuk
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
Fresh translations of Tolstoy's richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, "The Two Hussars" contrasts a dashing father and hi ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged ...Show more