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"Backgrounds and Sources" includes two Tolstoy memoirs, A History of Yesterday (1851) and The Memoirs of a Madman (1884), as well as entries--expanded in the Second Edition--from Tolstoy's "Diary for 1855" and selected letters (1858-95) that shed light on the author's creative process.

"Criticism" collects twenty-three essays by Russian and western scholars, six of which are new to this Second Edition. Interpretations focus both on Tolstoy's language and art and on specific themes and motifs in individual stories. Contributors include John M. Kopper, Gary Saul...

This volume contains Tales for Children, including -God Sees the Truth, but Waits, - -A Prisoner in the Caucasus, - and -The Bear-Hunt-; Popular Stories including, -What Men Live By, - -A Spark Neglected Burns the House, - -Two Old Men, - and -Where Love Is, God Is-; a Fairy Tale, -The Story of Ivan the Fool-; stories written to pictures, including -Evil Allures, but Good Endures, - -Little Girls Wiser Than Men, - and -Elias-; folktales retold, including -The Three Hermits, - -The Imp and the Crust, - -How Much Land Does a Man Need?, - -A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg, - -The Godson, - -The...

A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs entirely to the woman whose name it bears, whose portrait is one of the truest ever made by a writer. Translated by Louise and...

At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand...