The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design.
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the Pot," the little tale that Prince Mirsky...
The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated de...
"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The compelling stories in this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers because of their general unavailability. Available once again, the stories reveal new thematic and stylisitic dimensions to Tolstoy's oeuvre. While not all of the stories deal with actual serfdom, they all address the legacy of serfdom, of choicelessness, in Tolstoy's Russia. These stories are also...
"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works W...
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...
This volume contains Tales for Children, including -God Sees the Truth, but Waits, - -A Prisoner in the Caucasus, - and -The Bear-Hunt-; Popular St...
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Louise Maude Aylmer Maude
Master and Man - By Leo Tolstoy. "Master and Man" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1895). In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly 'for business' (purchasing the forest before other contenders can get there). They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself...
Master and Man - By Leo Tolstoy. "Master and Man" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1895). In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Br...
2014 paperback edition of Leo Tolstoy's controversial indictment of aesthetic theory. Tolstoy contends that much of European art since the Renaissance is not "true" art but "counterfeit" art, marked by being mannered, imitative, sensationalist, and overly intellectual. Few of the most highly regarded masters in the canon of art history are spared Tolstoy's scathing criticisms - Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Baudelaire, Zola, and many others, are derided as insincere, decadent, and obsessed with erotic mania. Even the concept of beauty is exposed as a manipulative,...
2014 paperback edition of Leo Tolstoy's controversial indictment of aesthetic theory. Tolstoy contends that much of European art since the Renaissance...
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Louise Maude Aylmer Maude
The plot of Family Happiness is extremely simple as compared to lauded Tolstoy works like Anna Karenina, War and Peace and Resurrection, but Tolstoy's straightforward style of writing and ability to relate every detail of his settings makes this book a highly enjoyable read.
The plot of Family Happiness is extremely simple as compared to lauded Tolstoy works like Anna Karenina, War and Peace and Resurrection, but Tolstoy's...
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Aylmer Maude Louise Maude
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was foremost among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century, and is widely considered one of the greatest writers of prose fiction in world history.
In his perceptive and moving depiction of Ivan Ilych, a worldly careerist facing his own mortality in the midst of a self-absorbed family and indifferent colleagues, Tolstoy provides one of literature's greatest and most memorable reflections on the meaning of the good life and on life as preparation for death.
This edition features the classic...
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was foremost among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth ce...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his...
The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych (36), an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship that has the trappings of a mere family friendship, Masha's love grows and expands until she can no longer contain it.
The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych (36), an old family friend. T...
