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Loading... Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (edition 1967)by Leo Tolstoy (Author), John Bayley
Work InformationGreat Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I have a vivid memory of being astounded by this when I read it in college. It was my first contact with Tolstoy, and the intensity of things like "The Kreutzer Sonata" just blew me away. There is also a great deal of variety here, from colorful tales like "The Cossacks" to the doleful "Death of Ivan Ilych." Sorry for the vague review, but it's been many years. Would love to walk through this one with Gumby, any day. no reviews | add a review
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 described as "a masterpiece of rare perfection." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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these stories are universally depressing.
Only "Family Happiness' has any cheer.
Inspired Walt Whitman? =
"Here I am, Dmitri Olenin, a being quite distinct from every other being,
now lying all alone Heaven only knows where - where a stag used to live - an old stag,
a beautiful stag who perhaps
had never seen a man,
and in place where no human being has ever sat or thought these thoughts.
Here I sit..."
The Cossacks ( )