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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
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 ...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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Leo Tolstoy
Three great stories offer profound insights into human behavior and motivation. Title story plus "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych." Explanatory footnotes.
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Tolstoy
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Henri Troyat
Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant ...
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A Confession
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Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy's revealing meditation on his great spiritual crisis in the late 1870s.
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Gospel in Brief
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
The Gospel in Brief is Leo Tolstoy's integration of the four biblical Gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus. Inspired in large measure by Tolstoy's meticulous study of the original Greek versions of the Bible, The Gospel in Brief is a highly original fusion of biblical texts and Tolstoy's own influential religious views. Tolstoy ...
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Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical ...
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.
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Tolstoy
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A. N. Wilson
This biography of Tolstoy by the award-winning English biographer A. N. Wilson puts Tolstoy's life into the context of his times--the rich, chaotic world of 19th-century Russia.
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Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Uncluttered by the complexities of plot and character that daunt so many readers of the longer Russian masterpieces, Tolstoy's tales illumine eternal truths with the forceful brevity. While inspired by the sense of spiritual certainty, their narrative quality, subtle humor, and visionary power lift them far above the common run of "religious" ...
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Short Stories
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Leo Tolstoy
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Master and Man and Other Stories
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Leo Tolstoy
The stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoyas artistic prowess displayed over five decadesa experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humor and compassion. aThe Two Hussars, a inspired by his time in the army, contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoyas belief that art ...
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Childhood, Boyhood & Youth
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
O'Brien's latest novel charts the quick and critical demise of relations between "the warring sons of warring sons" fighting over inherited land in the countryside of western Ireland.
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The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year
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Jay Parini
A novel about Tolstoy's last years, when he struggled with his belief in the virtues of poverty and chastity vs. the reality of his vast wealth, his wife, and his 13 children. Fleeing from the troubled domesticity of his life, he is taken ill at a small rural railway station; he believes that he is dying, while the entire world waits to hear his ...
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Master & Man
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
This classic short tale from one of the greatest writers of the 19th century is a parable about the relationship between master and servant, the terrible power of nature, and an encounter with death that saves one man's life and another's soul. Landowner Vassili Andreyich and one of his peasants, Nikita, embark on a trip to a neighboring village ...
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Tolstoy's Letters
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Leo Tolstoy
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The Portable Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), George L Kline (Translator)
The greatest of Russian novelists believed that "whatever the artist depicts - saints, robbers, kings, or lackeys - we seek and see only the artist's own soul" The soul that shines through the work of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is a vast and contradictory thing. It generates the narrative floodtides of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" ...
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The new spirit
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Havelock Ellis
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The Raid and Other Stories
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Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Editor), Louise Maude (Editor)
This collection of Tolstoy's stories includes "Sevastopol," "Two Hussars," "Albert," "What Men Live By," "Master and Man," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," "The Death of Ivan Ilych," "The Three Hermits," and the title piece.
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Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace'
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Gary Morson
For decades, the formal peculiarities of "War and Peace" disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure and the literary power of the book to Tolstoy's "primitive," unruly genius. Using that critical history as a starting point, this volume recaptures the overwhelming sense of strangeness felt by the work's ...
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?: And Other Stories
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Leo Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson (Editor)
A collection of short stories, a novella, and a parable ("How Much Land Does a Man Need?"), written by Leo Tolstoy and edited by A. N. Wilson. The earlier works of this collection are action tales written during Tolstoy's service in the Russian army, while the later ones show the development of his interest in Christianity and spirituality.
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Hedgehog and the Fox
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Isaiah Berlin
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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
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Lev and Sonya
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Louise Smoluchowski
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Leo Tolstoy
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Ernest Joseph Simmons
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Tolstoy and the Novel
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John Bayley
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